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Lyropecten cerrosensis

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

Taxonomy
Pecten cerrosensis was named by Gabb (1866). Its type specimen is UCMP 32669, a shell (a large two-valved individual), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis by Arnold (1906) and Hertlein (1925); it was recombined as Pecten (Lyropecten) cerrosensis by Jordan and Hertlein (1926); it was recombined as Nodipecten cerrosensis by Waller (2007); it was recombined as Lyropecten cerrosensis by Woodring (1938), Woodring and Bramlette (1950), Moore (1984), Smith (1991) and Hendy (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Pecten cerrosensis Gabb p. 32 figs. pl. 9, figs. 55, 55a
1906Pecten (Lyropecten) ashleyi Arnold p. 122 figs. pl. 47, figs. 1, 1a
1906Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis Arnold p. 123
1925Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis Hertlein
1926Pecten (Lyropecten) cerrosensis Jordan and Hertlein p. 432
1938Lyropecten cerrosensis Woodring p. 32 figs. Plate 7
1950Lyropecten cerrosensis Woodring and Bramlette
1984Lyropecten cerrosensis Moore p. B55 figs. Plate 20, figures I, 3, 4; plate 21, figure 1
1991Lyropecten cerrosensis Smith pp. 49 - 50 figs. Plate 27, figures 5, 6; plate 28, figures 2, 3, 4
2007Nodipecten cerrosensis Waller p. 933
2020Lyropecten cerrosensis Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
—OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
—OstreioniFerussac 1822
—OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderPectinida(Gray 1854)
suborderPectinidina(Adams and Adams 1858)
superfamilyPectinoideaRafinesque 1815
—PectinoidaeRafinesque 1815
familyPectinidaeWilkes 1810
genusLyropectenConrad 1862
speciescerrosensis()

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.

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Invalid names: Pecten (Lyropecten) ashleyi Arnold 1906 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. M. Gabb 1866Shell equivalve, subcircular, broader than long, convex ; beaks small; sides sloping concavely above, rounded below ; ears small, subequal, roughened and irregular, sinus very small. Surface marked by eighteen or twenty flat ribs, with flat or slightly concave interspaces ; margins undulated, the ends of the ribs being deeply emarginated, and the interspaces being prolonged into tongue-like processes.