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Dosinia

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy

Dosinia was named by Scopoli (1777) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-l R]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Dosiniidae by Rivera (1957); to Veneridae by Nagao (1928), Olsson (1931), Oostingh (1935), Mukerjee (1939), Marwick (1960), Kensley and Pether (1986), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992), Frassinetti and Covacevich (1999) and Todd (2001); to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002); to Dosiniinae by Glenn (1904), Gardner (1943), Gardner (1947), Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Freneix et al. (1988), Beu et al. (1990), Ward (1992) and Beu (2006); and to Dosiniini by Bouchet et al. (2010).

Species

Artemis lenticularis, Artemis lentiformis, Artemis lincta, Artemis orbignyi, D. (Artemis) tenuis, D. (Asa), D. (Austrodosinia), D. (Dosinella), D. (Dosinia), D. (Dosinidia) dalli, D. (Dosinidia) elegans, D. (Dosinidia) margaritana, D. (Dosinisca), D. (Dosinobia), D. (Dosinorbis), D. (Kakahuia), D. (Kaneharaia), D. (Kereia), D. (Phacosoma), D. (Raina), D. acetabulum, D. africana, D. alta, D. burckhardti, D. caerulea, D. castigata, D. chipolana, D. coloradoensis, D. conradi, D. discus, D. dunkeri (syn. Artemis simplex), D. excisa (syn. Sinodia sinuata), D. exoleta, D. falconensis, D. histrio, D. imparistriata, D. jacalitosana, D. kaspiewi, D. lawsoni, D. lechuzaensis, D. longula, D. lupina, D. mastrichtiensis, D. mercenaroidea, D. meridonalis, D. morani, D. nomurai (syn. D. chikuzenensis, D. nagaii), D. orbicularis, D. pertenuis, D. ponderosa (syn. D. grandis), D. protojuvenilis, D. santana, D. scalaris, D. sculpta, D. semiobliterata (syn. D. annae), D. tugaruana, Dosinidia palmerae

Species lacking formal opinion data

D. angulosa, D. bensoni, D. cuspidata, D. juvenilis, D. kaneharai, D. kaneharai, D. lambata, D. lambata, D. mackayi, D. maoriana, D. meridionalis, D. ongleyi, D. ongleyi, D. owadaensis, D. palmeriae, D. steinmanni, D. striatissima, D. troscheli, D. waiparaensis, D. whitleyi

Synonyms

Dosinia (Dosinidia) was named by Dall (1902). It is extant.

It was reranked as Dosinidia by Olsson (1931); it was synonymized objectively with Dosinia (Dosinia) by Woodring (1982); it was synonymized subjectively with Dosinia by Beu (2006).

It was assigned to Veneridae by Olsson (1931); and to Dosinia by Dall (1902), Dall (1903), Maury (1925) and Gardner (1943).
Artemis was named by Poli (1815). It is extant.

It was reranked as Dosinia (Artemis) by Anderson (1929); it was synonymized subjectively with Dosinia by Hendy (2007) and Bouchet et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Bivalvia by Agassiz (1845); and to Dosinia by Anderson (1929).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1777	Dosinia Scopoli p. 399
1815	Artemis Poli
1845	Arthemis Agassiz p. 19
1902	Dosinia (Dosinidia) Dall p. 347
1903	Dosinia (Dosinidia) Dall p. 1229
1904	Dosinia Glenn p. 315
1925	Dosinia (Dosinidia) Maury p. 319
1928	Dosinia Nagao p. 64
1929	Dosinia (Artemis) Anderson p. 166
1931	Dosinia Olsson p. 59
1931	Dosinidia Olsson p. 59
1935	Dosinia Oostingh p. 182
1939	Dosinia Mukerjee p. 22
1943	Dosinia Gardner p. 120
1943	Dosinia (Dosinidia) Gardner p. 120
1947	Dosinia Gardner pp. 152, 153
1957	Dosinia Rivera p. 194
1960	Dosinia Marwick p. 15
1980	Dosinia Vokes p. 167
1982	Dosinia Woodring p. 694
1986	Dosinia Kensley and Pether p. 206
1987	Dosinia Ward and Blackwelder p. 130
1988	Dosinia Freneix et al. p. 434
1990	Dosinia Beu et al. p. 400
1992	Dosinia Lamprell and Whitehead p. 144
1992	Dosinia Ward p. 101
1999	Dosinia Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 35
2001	Dosinia Todd
2002	Dosinia Sepkoski
2006	Dosinia Beu p. 270
2010	Dosinia Bouchet et al.

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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	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
—	Veneroidei	(Gray 1854)
—	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Veneroidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Veneridae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Venerinae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Dosiniini	(Deshayes 1858)
genus	Dosinia	Scopoli 1777

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. Dosinia Scopoli 1777

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Subg. Dosinia (Asa) Basterot 1825

†Dosinia (Asa) pseudoargus d'Archiac and Haime 1853

Subg. Dosinia (Austrodosinia) Dall 1902

Subg. Dosinia (Dosinella)

†Dosinia (Dosinella) arnoldi Clark 1915

†Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami Clark 1915

Subg. Dosinia (Dosinia) Scopoli 1777

†Dosinia (Dosinia) boettgeri Martin 1879

Dosinia (Dosinia) concentrica Born 1778

†Dosinia (Dosinia) delicatissima Brown and Pilsbry 1913

Invalid names: Dosinia (Dosinidia) brasiliensis White 1887 [synonym]

†Dosinia (Dosinia) liogona Dall 1903

†Dosinia (Dosinia) multilamellata Tate 1887

Dosinia (Dosinia) radiata Reeve 1850

†Dosinia (Dosinia) semilaevis Philippi 1887

†Dosinia (Dosinia) sicarisinus Kensley and Pether 1986

†Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi Gabb 1866

Invalid names: Dosinia mathewsonii Gabb 1869 [synonym]

†Dosinia (Dosinia) ponderosa titan Maury 1925

Subg. Dosinia (Dosinisca) Dall 1902

†Dosinia (Dosinisca) peralta Vredenburg 1928

†Dosinia (Dosinisca) subpenicillata Vredenburg 1928

Dosinia (Dosinisca) vredenburgi Borkar and Kulkarni 2019

†Dosinia (Dosinisca) wynnei Borkar and Kulkarni 2019

Invalid names: Dosinia pseudoargus gedrosiana Vredenburg 1928 [replaced]

Subg. †Dosinia (Dosinobia) Finlay and Marwick 1937

Subg. Dosinia (Dosinorbis)

Subg. †Dosinia (Kakahuia) Marwick 1927

Subg. †Dosinia (Kaneharaia) Makiyama 1936

†Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis Ilyina 1957

Subg. Dosinia (Kereia) Marwick 1927

Dosinia (Kereia) greyi Zittel 1864

†Dosinia (Kereia) numerosissima Darragh and Kendrick 2010

†Kereia cottoni Marwick 1927

†Kereia greyi Zittel 1864

†Kereia johnstoni Tate 1887

Subg. Dosinia (Phacosoma) Jukes-Brown 1912

Subg. †Dosinia (Raina) Marwick 1927

†Dosinia (Raina) imperiosa Marwick 1929

†Dosinia (Raina) sodalis Marwick 1929

†Raina bensoni Marwick 1927

†Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832

†Dosinia acetabulum thori Ward 1992

†Dosinia acetabulum blackwelderi Ward 1992

Dosinia africana Gray 1838

†Dosinia alta Conrad 1855

†Dosinia burckhardti Ihering 1907

†Dosinia caerulea Reeve 1850

†Dosinia castigata Marwick 1960

†Dosinia chipolana Dall 1903

†Dosinia coloradoensis Rivera 1957

Dosinia conradi Gabb 1866

Dosinia discus Reeve 1850

Dosinia dunkeri Philippi 1844

Invalid names: Artemis simplex Hanley 1845 [synonym]

Dosinia excisa Schröter 1788

Invalid names: Sinodia sinuata Gmelin 1791 [synonym]

Dosinia exoleta Linnaeus 1758

†Dosinia falconensis Hodson 1931

Dosinia histrio Gmelin 1791

†Dosinia imparistriata Tate 1887

†Dosinia jacalitosana Arnold 1909

†Dosinia kaspiewi Fischer-Piette 1967

†Dosinia lawsoni Dickerson 1914

†Dosinia lechuzaensis Rivera 1957

†Dosinia longula Conrad 1856

Dosinia lupina Linnaeus 1758

†Dosinia mastrichtiensis Vogel 1895

†Dosinia mercenaroidea Aldrich 1887

†Dosinia meridonalis Ihering 1897

†Dosinia morani Wiedey 1929

†Dosinia nomurai Otuka 1934

Invalid names: Dosinia chikuzenensis Nagao 1928 [synonym], Dosinia nagaii Otuka 1934 [synonym]

Dosinia orbicularis Agassiz 1845

†Dosinia pertenuis Gabb 1864

Dosinia ponderosa Gray 1838

Invalid names: Dosinia grandis Nelson 1870 [synonym]

†Dosinia protojuvenilis Noetling 1901

†Dosinia santana Loel and Corey 1932

†Dosinia scalaris Menke 1843

†Dosinia sculpta Hanley 1845

Dosinia semiobliterata Deshayes 1853

Invalid names: Dosinia annae Carpenter 1857 [synonym]

†Dosinia tugaruana Nomura 1935

Invalid names: Artemis Poli 1815 [synonym], Dosinidia Dall 1902 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
height	3	37.6	26.5	54.1	37.2	13.9

Composition:

aragonitef

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Comments:

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).g

Created:

2009-09-04 16:34:29

Modified:

2009-09-04 18:34:29

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Holocene or 99.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (839 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	D. forgemoli (161575)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Egypt (Sinai)	D. delettrei (3757)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Libya	D. delettrei (208626 208627)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Egypt	D. delettrei (208638)
Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Jordan	D. delettrei (66800)
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian	99.6 - 89.3	Egypt (Sinai)	D. delettrei (3762)
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	USA (New Jersey)	D. depressa, D. haddonfieldensis (48725)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	70.6 - 66.0	Netherlands	D. mastrichtiensis (138910)
Danian	66.0 - 61.6	New Zealand (Southland)	D. ongleyi (50176 50209 50212 50213)
Danian	66.0 - 61.6	USA (Alabama)	D. sp. (83297)
Selandian - Thanetian	61.6 - 56.0	New Zealand	D. n. sp. A (64703) D. n. sp. A, D. ongleyi (64698 64704) D. ongleyi (64699) D. sp. (64700)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	India (Rajasthan)	D. rakhiensis (46999)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	Brazil	D. brasiliensis (151586)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Australia (Western Australia)	D. numerosissima (179826 179828 179829 179830 179835 179836)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	New Zealand (Canterbury)	D. sp. (50163) D. sp., D. castigata (50147)
Middle Eocene	47.8 - 37.71	Peru (Ica)	D. coloradoensis (84699) D. lechuzaensis (84680)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	New Zealand	D. mackayi (64730 64741) D. n. sp. (67588 67589) D. n. sp., D. mackayi (64739) D. sp. (64732 64740 64745) D. suteri (64751 67587 67590) D. suteri, D. mackayi (64750)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	New Zealand (Otago)	D. sp. (52151)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	Colombia	D. sp. (88280)
Bartonian	41.3 - 38.0	New Zealand (Canterbury)	D. sp. (50149) D. suteri (52131)