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Daonella dianana

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Halobiidae

Taxonomy

Daonella dianana was named by Guo (1985). Its type specimen is IVy 0184, a valve (Right valve), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Bijie, Jiuzhai, Funing County, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Baifeng Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. angulata, D. degeeri, D. denisulcata, D. elegans, D. fascicostata, D. geeri, D. golana, D. guttula, D. nitanae, D. pesudograbensis, D. garderana, D. angulata, D. semicoridformis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1985	Daonella dianana Guo p. 155 figs. Pl 15, figs 11,12

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Pteriomorphia	(Beurlen 1944)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida	(Fërussac 1822)
suborder	Malleidina	Gray 1854
superfamily	Posidonioidea	Frech 1909
family	Halobiidae
genus	Daonella	Mojsisovics 1874
species	dianana

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.

†Daonella dianana Guo 1985

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
valve height	2	23.3	23.4	23.4	23.4	-

Composition:

aragonitef

Composition 2:

low Mg calcitef

Environment:

marine, brackisho

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2007-11-26 08:27:27

Modified:

2007-11-26 10:27:27

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	China (Yunnan)	Daonella dianana (type locality: 98476)