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Vanuxemia

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Vanuxemia Billings
1916Vanuxemia Raymond
1934Vanuxemia Isberg
1960Vanuxemia Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen p. 100
1980Vanuxemia Vokes p. 11
2002Vanuxemia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
RankNameAuthor
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
—OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
—ArcioniGray 1854
orderCyrtodontidaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
—CyrtodontidinaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
superfamilyCyrtodontoidea(Ulrich 1894)
familyCyrtodontidae
genusVanuxemia

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.

G. †Vanuxemia Billings 1858
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†Vanuxemia bayfieldi Billings 1857
†Vanuxemia bulla Salter 1865
†Vanuxemia decipiens Ulrich 1894
†Vanuxemia inconstans Billings 1858
†Vanuxemia kagawongensis Foerste 1924
†Vanuxemia limbata Raymond 1905
†Vanuxemia odhneri Isberg 1934
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
valve height227.325.629.127.42.49
valve diagonal227.325.629.127.42.49

Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: noneg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Life habit: semi-infaunalf
Diet: suspension feederf
Vision: blindc
Comments: BODY SIZE: Data from Cox et al. (1969)g
Created: 2009-06-05 11:40:55
Modified: 2009-06-05 13:40:55
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Middle Ordovician to the top of the Richmondian or 470.00000 to 445.50000 Ma

Collections (76 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ordovician485.4 - 443.8USA (New York) V. sp. (332)
Middle Ordovician470.0 - 458.4USA (New York) V. sp. (333)
Chazyan470.0 - 457.3USA (New York) V. limbata (171708 172321)
Whiterockian - Mohawkian470.0 - 451.0USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (10767)
Middle Ordovician - Late/Upper Ordovician470.0 - 443.8USA (Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23553)
Caradoc458.4 - 449.5USA (Wisconsin) V. sp. (55474) V. spp. (55651)
Caradoc458.4 - 449.5USA (Colorado) V. rotundata (10380 10391)
Caradoc458.4 - 449.5USA (Virginia) V. crassa (34247 34248 34249 34250 34251 34252)
Costonian - Pusgillian458.4 - 449.2Norway (Ringerike) V. sp. (194660)
Turinian457.3 - 453.8USA (Kentucky) V. gibbosa (100128 100176 100231)
Turinian457.3 - 453.8Canada (British Columbia) V. hayniana (192177)
Turinian457.3 - 453.8Canada (Ontario) V. canadensis (185356)
Blackriveran457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota) V. dixonensis (23081)
Blackriveran457.3 - 449.6USA (Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23614 23615 23617 23619 23620)
Blackriveran457.3 - 449.6USA (Wisconsin) V. sp. (416) V. spp. (168429)
Blackriveran457.3 - 449.6Canada (Ontario) V. inconstans (55999)
Blackriveran - Rocklandian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (23557)
Blackriveran - Rocklandian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois) V. sp. (23548)
Kirkfieldian457.3 - 449.6USA (Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23623 23644)
Rocklandian457.3 - 449.6USA (Kentucky) V. gibbosa, V. sp. (87737)
Rocklandian - Kirkfieldian457.3 - 449.6USA (Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23622)
Rocklandian - Kirkfieldian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (23558)
Rocklandian - Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (23550)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (23579 23584)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Kentucky) V. gibbosa (77357)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23651 23653 23656 23659 23664 23667 23668 23670)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Tennessee) V. hayniana (5356 5361)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6Canada (Ontario) V. media (26272)
Shermanian457.3 - 449.6USA (Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23552)
Longvillian457.2 - 455.0United Kingdom (Wales) Palaearca bulla (13832) V. bulla (13834)
Chatfieldian453.8 - 451.0Canada (Ontario) V. abrupta, V. dixonensis, V. media (26277) V. terminalis (26270)
Chatfieldian453.8 - 451.0USA (Kentucky) V. dixonensis, V. nana (34555) V. gibbosa (34547) V. sardesoni (99334) V. sp. (10722 34545)
Chatfieldian - Edenian453.8 - 450.2Canada (Nunavut) V. abrupta, V. baffinensis (24116)
Katian453.0 - 445.2Sweden (Dalarna) V. odhneri (124939)
Edenian451.0 - 450.2Canada (Nunavut) V. sp. (24225)
Edenian451.0 - 450.2USA (Minnesota) V. sp. (23588)
Edenian451.0 - 450.2USA (Illinois, Iowa) V. sp. (23678)
Edenian - Maysvillian451.0 - 449.6Canada (Ontario) V. sp. (26294)
Richmondian449.6 - 445.5USA (Michigan) V. noquerrwnaia, V. strattoni (26315)
Richmondian449.6 - 445.5Canada (Quebec) V. kagawongensis (172788)
Richmondian449.6 - 445.5Canada (Ontario) V. bayfieldi (173307)
Richmondian449.6 - 445.5Canada (Nunavut) V. sp. (24121)
Richmondian449.6 - 445.5USA (Ohio) V. waynesvillensis (27499 77927)
Cautleyan - Ashgill449.2 - 443.7United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) V. contorta (13841)