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Permophorus costatus

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Taxonomy
Arca costata was named by Brown (1839). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Newtown, River Irk, Bed 4, which is in a Wuchiapingian shallow subtidal packstone in the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Arca.

It was recombined as Myoconcha costata by Howse (1848) and Howse (1857); it was recombined as Pleurophorus costatus by King (1850), King (1856), Geinitz (1861), Langenhan (1899), Trechmann (1945) and Kłapciński (1967); it was recombined as Permophorus costatus by Logan (1967), Pattison (1970), Muromtseva and Guskov (1984) and Wasmer and Hautmann (2012).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. attenuatus, P. lunulus, P. subcostata

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Arca costata Brown p. 32 figs. Pl 6, figs 34,35
1846Cypricardia murchisoni Geinitz
1848Myoconcha costata Howse p. 245
1850Pleurophorus costatus King p. 181 figs. Pl 15, figs 13-20
1856Pleurophorus costatus King p. 75 figs. Pl 1, fig 5
1857Myoconcha costata Howse p. 310
1861Pleurophorus costatus Geinitz p. 71 figs. Pl 12, figs 32-35
1881Pleurophorus acuteplicatus Waagen p. 223 figs. Pl 18, fig 10
1899Pleurophorus costatus Langenhan p. 47 figs. Pl 2, figs 2,3,16
1945Pleurophorus costatus Trechmann p. 352
1967Pleurophorus costatus Kłapciński p. 431 figs. Pl 29, figs 14, 15
1967Permophorus costatus Logan p. 53 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-13
1970Permophorus costatus Pattison p. 155 figs. Pl 21, figs 7,9
1977Permophorus acuteplicatus Zhang p. 489 figs. Pl 192, fig 11
1984Permophorus costatus Muromtseva and Guskov p. 84 figs. Pl 5, fig 1; pl 52, figs 1c,2c,3-7,10,11,13,14
2012Permophorus costatus Wasmer and Hautmann p. 1064 figs. 8N-T

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
RankNameAuthor
—CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
—CardioniFerussac 1822
—CardiidiaFerussac 1822
—CardiataFerussac 1822
superorderCardiiformiiFerussac 1822
orderCardiidaFerussac 1822
superfamilyKalenteroideaMarwick 1953
familyKalenteridae
genusPermophorusChavan 1954
speciescostatus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Permophorus costatus Brown 1839
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Invalid names: Cypricardia murchisoni Geinitz 1846 [synonym], Pleurophorus acuteplicatus Waagen 1881 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height16.00----
valve height127.743.0013.27.903.21

Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: shallow infaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: blindc
Created: 2009-10-11 11:02:47
Modified: 2009-10-11 13:02:47
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Spathian or 293.52000 to 247.20000 Ma

Collections (66 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Russian Federation Permophorus costatus (114161)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Russian Federation Permophorus costatus (114160)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3Russian Federation (Perm) Permophorus costatus (216640)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3Russian Federation Permophorus costatus (97001 110010 113905 113948 113965 114172 114216 114444)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Latvia Permophorus costatus (46433 46444)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom (England) Arca costata (type locality: 119882 119884 119885 119886) Permophorus costatus (24084 24085 24086 88656 89577 89595 95796 97263 109722 112847 112848 112849 112851 112852 112853 112854 112855 208902 208903) Pleurophorus costatus (87337 117889 130765 130766)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Poland Pleurophorus costatus (133410)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) Pleurophorus costatus (208912)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom Myoconcha costata (130869 130870 130871 130872) Pleurophorus costatus (130772 161470)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Lithuania Permophorus costatus (46159 46184 46203 46401 46413 46451 46486 46517)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17United Kingdom (Durham) Myoconcha costata (130875 130876) Pleurophorus costatus (130771 130832 130833 130846)
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian259.9 - 252.17Russian Federation Permophorus costatus (114210)
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17Pakistan Pleurophorus acuteplicatus (119554)
Spathian251.3 - 247.2Pakistan Permophorus costatus (133705 133710)