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Taxonomy
Falcimytilus dietrichi was named by Cox (1965). Its type locality is Cox - 1 (Tendaguru), which is in a Kimmeridgian marginal marine limestone in Tanzania.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Falcimytilus dietrichi Cox |
| 1982 | Falcimytilus dietrichi Yamani |
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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.
†Falcimytilus dietrichi Cox 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oxfordian to the top of the Early/Lower Tithonian or 161.20000 to 145.00000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Oxfordian | Kenya | Falcimytilus dietrichi (36485 36489) | |
| Oxfordian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (35507) | |
| Late/Upper Oxfordian | Germany (Bavaria) | Falcimytilus dietrichi (95770) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (35460 35504 35573) | |
| Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (35570) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (type locality: 36279 36283 36299 36300 36309) | |
| Tithonian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (35508) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Tanzania | Falcimytilus dietrichi (35506 35509 35571) |