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Vaccinites

Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae

Taxonomy

Vaccinites was named by Fischer (1887) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo K Maes-u]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Hippuritoida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Hippuritidae by Vokes (1980), Skelton (2013).

Species

Tetravaccinites collignoni, V. archiaci (syn. V. cornuvaccium, Hippurites sulcatus, V. praeespagnicus), V. sulcatus, V. vesiculosus, V. vredenburgi

Species lacking formal opinion data

Hippurites cornuvaccinum, Hippurites giganteus, Hippurites inaequicostatus, Hippurites oppeli, Hippurites oppeli, V. alpinus, V. atheniensis, V. bacevicensis, V. beaussetensis, V. boehmi, V. braciensis, V. carinthiacus, V. chalmasi, V. chaperi, V. conicus, V. conicus, V. corbaricus, V. cornuvaccinum, V. cornuvaccinum, V. crassicostatus, V. darwasensis, V. dentatus, V. fortisi, V. galloprovincialis, V. gaudry, V. gaudryi, V. gaundry, V. giganteus, V. giganteus, V. gosaviensis, V. gosaviensis, V. grossouvrei, V. inaequicostatus, V. inaequicostatus, V. inaequicostatus, V. inaequicostatus, V. inferus, V. jullieni, V. kuehni, V. ljalintzensis, V. loftusi, V. loftusii, V. macgillavryi, V. macgillavyri, V. marticensis, V. moulinsi, V. oppeli, V. oppeli, V. orientalis, V. petrocoriensis, V. praecorbaricus, V. praegiganteus, V. praepetrocoriensis, V. praesulcatus, V. ptoonensis, V. robustus, V. romanowskii, V. rousseli, V. russeli, V. salopeki, V. taburni, V. taburnii, V. turkestanensis, V. ultimus, V. vermunti, V. zurcheri

Synonyms

Tetravaccinites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Vaccinites by Skelton (2013).

It was assigned to Hippuritoida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1887	Vaccinites Fischer
1980	Vaccinites Vokes p. 198
2002	Tetravaccinites Sepkoski
2002	Vaccinites Sepkoski
2013	Vaccinites Skelton

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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)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Hippuritida	()
suborder	Radiolitidina
superfamily	Radiolitoidea	Gray 1848
family	Hippuritidae	Gray 1848
genus	Vaccinites	Fischer 1887

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. †Vaccinites Fischer 1887

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†Vaccinites archiaci Munier-Chalmas 1892

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Invalid names: Hippurites sulcatus Defrance 1895 [synonym], Vaccinites cornuvaccium Bronn 1984 [synonym], Vaccinites praeespagnicus Pamouktchiev 1979 [synonym]

†Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821

†Vaccinites vesiculosus Woodward 1855

†Vaccinites vredenburgi Kuehn 1932

Invalid names: Tetravaccinites [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitef

Composition 2:

low Mg calcitef

Grouping:

gregariousf

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

stationaryf

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

semi-infaunalf

Diet:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2007-09-07 07:00:32

Modified:

2007-09-26 14:51:27

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

References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Cenomanian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 100.50000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (234 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Mexico (Guerrero)	V. macgillavryi (221326)
Late/Upper Cenomanian - Late/Upper Turonian	100.5 - 89.8	Mexico (Guerrero)	V. macgillavryi (221327)
Late/Upper Cretaceous	100.5 - 66.0	Mexico (San Luis Potosi)	V. macgillavyri (221319) V. sp. (221322)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Italy	V. petrocoriensis (87115 87116)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Spain	V. petrocoriensis, V. rousseli (74580) V. rousseli (234694)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Bulgaria	V. sp. (67563)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Türkiye	V. praegiganteus (221676 221677)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	France	V. petrocoriensis (59230 59232) V. petrocoriensis, V. grossouvrei (59231) V. petrocoriensis, V. praepetrocoriensis (74223) V. praepetrocoriensis (74201) V. rousseli, V. beaussetensis (74226) V. sp. (59233)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Jordan	V. rousseli (175557 175560 175562)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Türkiye (Antalya)	V. praegiganteus (161398 161399 161402 161403 161407 161416 161568 161569 161570 161571 161572 161704 161705 161706 161707 161708) V. sp. (161417)
Youngest occurrences
Time interval	Ma	Country or state	PBDB collection number
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Iran (Isfahan)	V. sp., V. inaequicostatus (162598) V. sp., V. vesiculosus (162606 162607)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Serbia	V. conicus, V. sp. (1319) V. ultimus, V. loftusi, V. orientalis, V. bacevicensis, V. oppeli (74558)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Austria	V. braciensis, V. conicus, V. ultimus (1379)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Mexico (San Luis Potosi)	V. sp. (221321)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Somalia	V. sp. (1399)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Bulgaria	V. atheniensis, V. loftusii (1332)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Iran	V. vesiculosus (225730)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	North Atlantic	V. macgillavryi (1374)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Italy	V. conicus, V. ultimus, V. cornuvaccinum (1346) V. ultimus (74623)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Spain	V. sp. (1378)