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Atomodesma variabile

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae

Taxonomy
Atomodesma variabilis was named by Wanner (1922). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Basleo (Wanner collection), which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in Indonesia.

It was misspelled as Atomodesma variabilis by Muromtseva (1981) and Muromtseva and Guskov (1984); it was corrected as Atomodesma variabile by Waterhouse (1978), Waterhouse (1987), Astafieva (1993) and Biakov and Kutygin (2020).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Atomodesma variabilis Wanner p. 64 figs. Pl 153, figs 2-4; text-fig 13
1959Atomodesma variabilis Kashirtsev p. 73 figs. Pl 44, figs 1,2
1978Atomodesma variabile Waterhouse p. 132 figs. Pl 25, figs 7,14-16
1981Atomodesma variabilis Muromtseva p. 31 figs. Pl 7, figs 14,15
1984Atomodesma variabilis Muromtseva and Guskov p. 47 figs. Pl 7, fig 9; pl 8, figs 3-5; pl 21, fig 5; pl 23, fig 24b
1987Atomodesma variabile Waterhouse p. 143 figs. Pl 1, fig 26; pl 3, figs 5,6
1993Atomodesma variabile Astafieva p. 81 figs. Pl 1, figs 7a,b
2020Atomodesma variabile Biakov and Kutygin p. 462 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
RankNameAuthor
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
OstreioniFerussac 1822
MyalinataPaul 1939
orderMyalinidaPaul 1939
superfamilyInoceramoideaGiebel 1852
familyAtomodesmatidaeWaterhouse 1976
subfamilyAtomodesmatinae()
genusAtomodesma
speciesvariabile()

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.

Atomodesma variabile Wanner 1922
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Diagnosis
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