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Pegmavalvula gloveri

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae

Taxonomy
Pegmavalvula gloveri was named by Newell and Boyd (1970). Its type specimen is AMNH 28918, a valve (Left valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMNH512, Guadalupe Pass, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Roadian slope limestone in the Cherry Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Pegmavalvula.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Pegmavalvula gloveri Newell and Boyd p. 263 figs. figs. 7A, B, 25, 26

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
RankNameAuthor
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderPectinida(Gray 1854)
suborderAnomiidinaGray 1854
AviculopectinoideiStarobogatov 1992
superfamilyAviculopectinoideaMeek and Hayden 1864
familyPseudomonotidaeNewell 1938
subfamilyPseudomonotinaeNewell 1938
genusPegmavalvula
speciesgloveri

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.

Pegmavalvula gloveri Newell and Boyd 1970
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
valve height444.134.560.342.610.9

Composition: low Mg calciteo
Composition 2: aragoniteo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Created: 2007-09-07 02:56:05
Modified: 2009-12-13 03:22:38
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Kungurian to the top of the Wordian or 283.30000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4USA (Texas) Pegmavalvula gloveri (75865)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4Venezuela (Merida) Pegmavalvula gloveri (41510 41511 41516)
Roadian274.4 - 266.9USA (Texas) Pegmavalvula gloveri (43548 43553 type locality: 81693 81722 101767 101782 101783 101807 102615 106021)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28USA (Texas) Pegmavalvula gloveri (43550)