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Pinna cretacea

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae

Taxonomy

Pinnites cretaceus was named by Schlotheim (1813).

It was recombined as Pinna cretacea by Böhm (1891), Griffin et al. (2008), Schneider et al. (2013).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. africana, P. anderssoni, P. buchii, P. canrena, P. cottai, P. cretacia, P. cuneata, P. curvimarginata, P. dechazeauxae, P. distans, P. ecki, P. fissa, P. flabelliformis, P. fragilis, P. freneizae, P. gardnerae, P. gervaisei, P. gillieroni, P. guadalupae, P. harnetti, P. hartmannii, P. heeri, P. helvetica, P. hombresi, P. iburgensis, P. kauffmani, P. kingi, P. lanceolota, P. laquata, P. loqueata, P. magellanica, P. mediokeuperina, P. miliara, P. moorei, P. multisulcata, P. neozelanica, P. nobilis, P. nyainrongensis, P. odlingi, P. pachyostraca, P. pectinata, P. quadrifrons, P. raebliana, P. refurca, P. regina-maris, P. reticularis, P. romanikhae, P. romanikhaensis, P. rostriformis, P. sandsfootensis, P. sandsfootensis, P. semistriata, P. sobrali, P. socialis, P. spathulata, P. squamifera, P. stoliczkai, P. sulcifera, P. suprajurensis, P. tetragona, P. tibetica, P. truncata, P. varicosa, P. vaughani, P. amplissima, P. mitis, P. muikadaniensis, P. mytiloides, P. quadrata, P. robinaldina, P. saitoi, P. sandsfootensis, P. subcuneata, P. suprajurensis, P. kasimirensis, P. atriniformis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1813	Pinnites cretaceus Schlotheim
1891	Pinna cretacea Böhm p. 80
2008	Pinna cretacea Griffin et al. p. 145
2013	Pinna cretacea Schneider et al.

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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	Malleidina	Gray 1854
superfamily	Pinnoidea	Leach 1819
family	Pinnidae	Leach 1819
genus	Pinna	Linnaeus 1758
species	cretacea	(Schlotheim 1813)

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.

†Pinna cretacea Schlotheim 1813

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitef

Composition 2:

aragonitef

Environment:

marine, brackisho

Locomotion:

stationaryg

Attached:

yesg

Life habit:

semi-infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2004-02-29 16:58:07

Modified:

2009-08-17 21:48:16

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

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 106.30000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (41 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	Brazil	Pinna cretacea (126914)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Germany	Pinna cretacea (66779)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Brazil	Pinna cretacea (126907 126908 126909)
Early/Lower Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Germany (Bayern)	Pinna cretacea (114012)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Brazil (Sergipe)	Pinna cretacea (143693 143703 143707 143709 143716 143734)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Brazil	Pinna cretacea (126910)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Czechia	Pinna cretacea (31184)
Middle Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Austria (Salzkammergut)	Pinna cretacea (142308)
Late/Upper Turonian - Early/Lower Coniacian	93.9 - 85.7	Brazil	Pinna cretacea (126911)
Early/Lower Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	Brazil	Pinna cretacea (126912 126915)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Austria	Pinna cretacea (114268)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Germany	Pinna cretacea (221859)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Poland	Pinna cretacea (28087)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Germany	Pinna cretacea (213668)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Austria (Lower Austria)	Pinna cretacea (226428)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Poland	Pinna cretacea (27818 27822 28080 28083)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Poland	Pinna cretacea (1321)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Germany	Pinna cretacea (1318 1330 1342 1349)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Netherlands	Pinna cretacea (1326)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Austria	Pinna cretacea (1379)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Belgium	Pinna cretacea (1324)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	United Kingdom (England)	Pinna cretacea (1389)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	France (Normandy)	Pinna cretacea (1325)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Ukraine	Pinna cretacea (1334)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Denmark	Pinna cretacea (1385 1386)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Bulgaria	Pinna cretacea (1332)