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Mytiloides
Taxonomy
Mytiloides was named by Brongniart (1822) [Sepkoski's age data: J Sine-u K Sn]. It is not extant.
It was reranked as Inoceramus (Mytiloides) by Conti and Monari (1991).
It was assigned to Inoceramus by Conti and Monari (1991); to Inoceramidae by Vokes (1980) and Elder and Box (1992); and to Pterioida by Sepkoski (2002).
It was reranked as Inoceramus (Mytiloides) by Conti and Monari (1991).
It was assigned to Inoceramus by Conti and Monari (1991); to Inoceramidae by Vokes (1980) and Elder and Box (1992); and to Pterioida by Sepkoski (2002).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1822 | Mytiloides Brongniart |
| 1980 | Mytiloides Vokes p. 42 |
| 1991 | Inoceramus (Mytiloides) Conti and Monari |
| 1992 | Mytiloides Elder and Box p. 29 |
| 2002 | Mytiloides Sepkoski |
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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.
G. †Mytiloides Brongniart 1822
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†Mytiloides africanus Heinz 1930
†Mytiloides amygdaloides Goldfuss 1835
†Mytiloides incertus Jimbo 1894
†Mytiloides labiatus Schlotheim 1813
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Invalid names: Inoceramus glennensis Anderson 1958 [synonym]
†Mytiloides lusatiae Andert 1911
†Mytiloides mytiloides Mantell 1822
†Mytiloides opalensis Böse 1923
†Mytiloides stantoni Sokolow 1914
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Invalid names: Inoceramus acuteplicatus Stanton 1899 [synonym], Inoceramus uwajimensis Yehara 1924 [synonym]
†Mytiloides striatoconcentricus Gümbel 1968
†Mytiloides teraokai Matsumoto and Noda 1968
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| W. P. Elder and S. E. Box 1992 | Shells moderately large, subequivalved, thin, strongly to moderately prosocline and slightly biconvex; hinge slightly thickened with small, closely spaced multivincular resilifers. No obvious byssal slit and no pedalbyssal muscles, pallial line continuous, mantle retractor tracks weak, posterior adductor insertion area subcrescentic (after Kauffman and Powell, 1977). |