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Daonella americana

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Halobiidae

Taxonomy

Daonella americana was named by Smith (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Divide between Troy Canyon and South Fork of American Canyon (rotelliformis), which is in an Illyrian marine limestone in Nevada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. angulata, D. degeeri, D. denisulcata, D. elegans, D. fascicostata, D. geeri, D. golana, D. guttula, D. nitanae, D. pesudograbensis, D. garderana, D. angulata, D. semicoridformis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1914	Daonella americana Smith p. 143 figs. Pl 89, figs 4-9
1982	Daonella americana Silberling and Nichols p. 67 figs. Pl 35, figs 1-7
1996	Daonella americana Dagis et al. p. 43 figs. Pl 13, figs 8-13

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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)
infraclass	Pteriomorphia	(Beurlen 1944)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Ostreida	(Fërussac 1822)
suborder	Malleidina	Gray 1854
superfamily	Posidonioidea	Frech 1909
family	Halobiidae
genus	Daonella	Mojsisovics 1874
species	americana

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.

†Daonella americana Smith 1914

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
valve height	5	15.6	7.70	27.9	16.4	7.51

Composition:

aragonitef

Composition 2:

low Mg calcitef

Environment:

marine, brackisho

Locomotion:

stationaryo

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2007-11-26 08:27:27

Modified:

2007-11-26 10:27:27

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Anisian or 247.20000 to 242.00000 Ma

Collections (19 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Anisian	247.2 - 242.0	Russian Federation	Daonella americana (124648 124649)
Illyrian	247.2 - 242.0	Russian Federation	Daonella americana (107116 107126 107194)
Illyrian	247.2 - 242.0	USA (Nevada)	Daonella americana (38919 38922 39089 40748 40757 40759 57090 type locality: 142669 142857 142862 142864 142865 142866 142868)