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Ameritella modesta
Taxonomy
Angulus modesta was named by Carpenter (1864) [DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene-Recent; Eastern Pacific.]. It is extant.
It was corrected as Angulus modestus by Carpenter (1864); it was recombined as Tellina (Angulus) modesta by Coan et al. (2000) and Moore (2003); it was recombined as Ameritella modesta by Hendy (2021).
It was corrected as Angulus modestus by Carpenter (1864); it was recombined as Tellina (Angulus) modesta by Coan et al. (2000) and Moore (2003); it was recombined as Ameritella modesta by Hendy (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1855 | Tellina pedroana Conrad p. 13 figs. pi. 2, fig. 17 |
| 1864 | Angulus modestus Carpenter p. 681 |
| 1869 | Macoma pedroana Gabb pp. 94, 124 |
| 1888 | Macoma pedroana Cooper p. 248 |
| 2000 | Tellina (Angulus) modesta Coan et al. p. 402 |
| 2003 | Tellina (Angulus) modesta Moore figs. plate 1, figures 4a-d |
| 2021 | Ameritella modesta Hendy |
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Ameritella modesta Carpenter 1864
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Invalid names: Macoma pedroana Conrad 1855 [synonym], Tellina buttoni Dall 1900 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Gelasian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Gelasian | USA (California) | Tellina buttoni (189765 207643 207656 207663 207713) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (California) | Tellina buttoni (201624) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Tellina buttoni (138723 202648 203108 223327) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Macoma pedroana (222646) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico | Tellina buttoni (52347 67641) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Tellina buttoni (37672 37673 59063 96566 96895) |