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Myrtea ezoensis

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Taxonomy

Lucina (Myrtea) ezoensis was named by Nagao (1957). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Myrtea ezoensis by Tashiro and Kozai (1982).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1957	Lucina (Myrtea) ezoensis Nagao p. 136 figs. pl. 16, figs. 4-6
1982	Myrtea ezoensis Tashiro and Kozai p. 83

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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)

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida	(Stoliczka 1871)
superfamily	Lucinoidea	Fleming 1828
family	Lucinidae	Fleming 1828
genus	Myrtea	Turton 1822
species	ezoensis	(Nagao 1957)

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.

†Myrtea ezoensis Nagao 1957

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
height	2	8.59	8.20	9.00	8.60	0.566

Composition:

aragonitef

Entire body:

yess

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10s

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10s

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10s

Folds:

nones

Ribbing:

minors

Spines:

nones

Internal reinforcement:

nones

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

photosymbioticg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-02-28 14:48:34

Modified:

2009-02-28 16:48:34

Source: s = species, g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Sanchez Roig 1926, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Tashiro and Kozai 1982

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Thanetian or 89.80000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections (13 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Turonian - Late/Upper Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Japan	Myrtea ezoensis (87012)
Coniacian	89.8 - 86.3	Japan (Hidaka)	Myrtea ezoensis (40587)
Coniacian	89.8 - 86.3	Japan (Teshio)	Myrtea ezoensis (40122)
Coniacian - Campanian	89.8 - 72.1	Japan	Myrtea ezoensis (40614)
Early/Lower Coniacian	89.3 - 85.8	Japan (Fukushima)	Myrtea ezoensis (39626)
Santonian	86.3 - 83.6	Japan (Hidaka)	Myrtea ezoensis (40588)
Santonian	86.3 - 83.6	Japan (Teshio)	Myrtea ezoensis (40126)
Early/Lower Santonian	85.8 - 83.5	Japan	Myrtea ezoensis (219958)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.1	Japan (Teshio)	Myrtea ezoensis (39821)
Campanian	83.6 - 72.1	Japan (Hidaka)	Myrtea ezoensis (40589)
Maastrichtian	72.1 - 66.0	Russian Federation (Sakhalin)	Myrtea ezoensis (1333 1353)
Selandian - Thanetian	61.6 - 56.0	Japan (Hokkaido)	Myrtea ezoensis (206290)