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Pectunculus ovatus
Taxonomy
Pectunculus ovatus was named by Stanton (1895). Its type specimen is USNM 23046, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Northwest of Stephenson Place, Cold Ford of Cottonwood Creek, which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian basinal (siliceous) mudstone/sandstone in the Stony Creek Formation of California.
It was corrected as Pectunculus ovatus by Broderip (1832); it was recombined as Glycymeris ovatus by Anderson (1938), Rivadeneira and Carmona (2008); it was recombined as Glycymeris ovata by Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012).
It was corrected as Pectunculus ovatus by Broderip (1832); it was recombined as Glycymeris ovatus by Anderson (1938), Rivadeneira and Carmona (2008); it was recombined as Glycymeris ovata by Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1832 | Pectunculus ovatus Broderip p. 126 |
| 1895 | Pectunculus ovatus Stanton p. 51 figs. PL VI, figs. 9 and 10 |
| 1938 | Glycymeris ovatus Anderson pp. 97 - 98 |
| 2008 | Glycymeris ovatus Rivadeneira and Carmona |
| 2012 | Glycymeris ovata Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 194 |
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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.
†Pectunculus ovatus Stanton 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008 | |||||
Age range: base of the Hauterivian to the top of the Barremian or 132.60000 to 121.40000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Hauterivian - Barremian | USA (California) | Pectunculus ovatus (type locality: 117991) |