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Claraia clarai
Taxonomy
Posidonomya clarae was named by Emmrich (1844). Its type specimen is University of Wisconsin, No. 21343 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Meadow Creek Canyon, Claraia zone, Fremont County, which is in a Griesbachian marine limestone in the Dinwoody Formation of Wyoming. It is the type species of Claraia.
It was recombined as Avicula clarai by Lepsius (1878) and Stoyanow (1910); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis (Claraia) clarai by Bittner (1901) and Ogilvie Gordon (1927); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis clarai by Hsu (1937); it was recombined as Claraia clarae by Newell and Boyd (1995); it was recombined as Claraia clarai by Newell and Kummel (1942), Ciriacks (1963) and Hofmann et al. (2015).
It was recombined as Avicula clarai by Lepsius (1878) and Stoyanow (1910); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis (Claraia) clarai by Bittner (1901) and Ogilvie Gordon (1927); it was recombined as Pseudomonotis clarai by Hsu (1937); it was recombined as Claraia clarae by Newell and Boyd (1995); it was recombined as Claraia clarai by Newell and Kummel (1942), Ciriacks (1963) and Hofmann et al. (2015).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1844 | Posidonomya clarae Emmrich |
| 1878 | Avicula clarai Lepsius |
| 1901 | Pseudomonotis (Claraia) clarai Bittner |
| 1910 | Avicula clarai Stoyanow p. 116 |
| 1927 | Pseudomonotis (Claraia) clarai Ogilvie Gordon |
| 1937 | Pseudomonotis clarai Hsu |
| 1942 | Claraia clarai Newell and Kummel |
| 1963 | Claraia clarai Ciriacks p. 78 figs. Pl 15, fig 7 |
| 1995 | Claraia clarae Newell and Boyd p. 27 fig. 17.7 |
| 2015 | Claraia clarai Hofmann et al. fig. 3M,N |
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†Claraia clarai Emmrich 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available