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Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae

Taxonomy

Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema was named by Spath (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cape Stosch, river 13, locality 514, which is in a Griesbachian marine siliciclastic in the Wordie Creek Formation of Greenland.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Claraia anisica, Claraia aurita, Claraia aurita, Claraia australasiatica, Claraia australasiatica, Claraia clarae, Claraia clarai, Claraia claraia, Claraia concetrica, Claraia convexa, Claraia dalpiazi, Claraia dalpiazi, Claraia fukianensis, Claraia fukienensis, Claraia greisbachi, Claraia griesbachi, Claraia griesbachi, Claraia huzhouensis, Claraia intermedia, Claraia julfensis, Claraia kashmirensis, Claraia kilensis, Claraia liuquaoensis, Claraia lungyenensis, Claraia lungyenesis, Claraia nakazawai, Claraia novosemelica, Claraia ovata, Claraia painkhandana, Claraia shabaoensis, Claraia shachi, Claraia songpanensis, Claraia songpanensis, Claraia tesidea, Claraia tumida, Claraia wangigriesbachi, Claraia yangkangensis, Claraia zhenanica, P. angulosa, P. artiensis, P. bjona, P. cycloidea, P. doneziana, P. elegans, P. elegantula, P. idahoensis, P. jakutica, P. kittli, P. laevis, P. lieberti, P. michaeli, P. noinskii, P. noinskyi, P. ochotica, P. papyria, P. papyrica, P. pealei, P. permiana, P. similis, P. spitzbergensis, P. tendagurensis, P. tenuistriatus, P. zitteli, P. indica, P. artica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1935	Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema Spath p. 72 figs. Pl 20, fig 10; pl 21, fig 2

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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)
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Pectinida	(Gray 1854)
suborder	Anomiidina	Gray 1854
—	Aviculopectinoidei	Starobogatov 1992
superfamily	Pterinopectinoidea	Newell 1938
family	Claraiidae	Gavrilova 1996
subfamily	Claraiinae	Gavrilova 1996
tribe	Claraiini	Gavrilova 1996
genus	Pseudomonotis	Bittner 1901
subgenus	Claraia
species	extrema

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.

†Pseudomonotis (Claraia) extrema Spath 1935

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	2	34.4	33.8	35.0	34.4	0.849

Composition:

low Mg calciteo

Composition 2:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2007-09-07 02:56:05

Modified:

2009-12-13 03:22:38

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Griesbachian or 251.90200 to 250.50000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Griesbachian	251.902 - 250.5	Greenland	Pseudomonotis extrema (type locality: 118783 118785)