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Cyrtodontula ventricosa

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae

Taxonomy
Edmondia ventricosa was named by Hall (1847).

It was recombined as Cypricardites ventricosa by Miller (1889); it was recombined as Bodmania ventricosa by Miller and Faber (1894); it was recombined as Whitella ventricosa by Ulrich (1894); it was recombined as Cyrtodontula ventricosa by Toni (1975).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Edmondia ventricosa Hall p. 155 figs. pl. 35, figs. 1a-f
1889Cypricardites ventricosa Miller fig. 477
1894Bodmania ventricosa Miller and Faber p. 24
1894Whitella ventricosa Ulrich
1975Cyrtodontula ventricosa Toni

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
RankNameAuthor
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
ArcioniGray 1854
orderCyrtodontidaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
CyrtodontidinaScarlato and Starobogatov 1971
superfamilyCyrtodontoidea(Ulrich 1894)
familyCyrtodontidae
genusCyrtodontula
speciesventricosa(Hall 1847)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult length: 10 to < 100g
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: thing
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: noneg
Spines: noneg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: epifaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: blindc
Created: 2009-06-05 11:38:37
Modified: 2020-02-20 07:37:44
Source: g = genus, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009

Age range: base of the Edenian to the top of the Rawtheyan or 451.00000 to 445.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Trentonian457.3 - 449.6USA (New York) Cyrtodontula ventricosa (159338 164717)
Edenian - Maysvillian451.0 - 449.6Canada (Ontario) Whitella ventricosa (26293)
Pusgillian - Rawtheyan449.5 - 445.2Norway (Ringerike) Cyrtodontula ventricosa (163026)