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Pycnodonte gryphovicinus

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

Taxonomy

Ostrea gryphovicina was named by Wood (1861).

It was recombined as Pycnodonte gryphovicinus by Jeffery and Tracey (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. ariana, P. aucella, P. baylei, P. belli, P. biauriculatum, P. brongnarti, P. brongniarti, P. bryozophila, P. burckhardti, P. cassis, P. cereviciana, P. congesta, P. convexa, P. cymbiola, P. dissimilaris, P. flicki, P. frauscheri, P. gigantica, P. groeberi, P. hippopodium, P. houzeaui, P. kansasense, P. kellumi, P. mackayi, P. mendozana, P. mirabile, P. miradonensis, P. miradonensis, P. mutabilis, P. navia, P. newberryi, P. nikitini, P. paroxis, P. praesinzovi, P. proboscideum, P. pyrotheriorum, P. rarilamella, P. regionis, P. sanfilippoi, P. semicoronata, P. seymourensis, P. seymourianus, P. seymouriensis, P. simile, P. subvesiculosa, P. telugensis, P. uncinella, P. vericosa, P. convexa, P. tarda, P. antiqua, P. antiqua, P. antiqua, P. antiqua, P. aucella, P. gambaensis, P. mutabilis, P. navaniaensis, P. nomada, P. brongniarti, P. queteletti, P. vesicularis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1861	Ostrea gryphovicina Wood
1997	Pycnodonte gryphovicinus Jeffery and Tracey p. 86 figs. Pl 3, fig 9

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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)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida	(Fërussac 1822)
suborder	Ostreidina	(Ferussac 1822)
superfamily	Ostreoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Gryphaeidae	Vialov 1936
subfamily	Pycnodonteinae	Stenzel 1959
genus	Pycnodonte	(Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
species	gryphovicinus	(Wood 1861)

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.

†Pycnodonte gryphovicinus Wood 1861

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitef

Environment:

marine, brackisho

Locomotion:

stationaryg

Attached:

yesg

Life habit:

epifaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-08-18 17:10:00

Modified:

2009-08-18 19:10:00

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

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Steuber 2002

Age range: Early/Lower Eocene or 56.00000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Eocene	56.0 - 48.07	United Kingdom (England)	Ostrea gryphovicina (3262)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	United Kingdom (England)	Pycnodonte gryphovicinus (3268)