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Basiliola nitida

Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae

Taxonomy
Basiliola nitida was named by Cooper (1957). Its type specimen is USNM 549314, a valve, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS 17521, Highway 5 (WF 76), which is in a Calabrian/Pleistocene lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal grainstone/limestone in the Naha Formation of Japan.

Entered
by A. Hendy on 2012-01-12; modified by A. Hendy on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Basiliola nitida Cooper p. 7 figs. pl. 1, figs 17-23
1959Basiliola nitida Cooper p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
—Lophophorata
—PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderRhynchonellidaKuhn 1949
superfamilyPugnacoideaRzhonsnitskaia 1956
familyBasiliolidae
subfamilyBasiliolinae
genusBasiliolaDall 1908
speciesnitida

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.

†Basiliola nitida Cooper 1957
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height17.00

Composition: low Mg calcitep
Environment: marineuc
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yesp
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2004-02-28 14:12:25
Modified: 2004-02-28 16:12:25
Source: o = order, c = class, p = phylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Nesnidal et al. 2013

Age range: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 1.80000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene1.8 - 0.129Japan (Okinawa) Basiliola nitida (type locality: 190223)