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Posidonia
Taxonomy
Posidonia was named by Konig (1805). It is extant.
It was assigned to Najadeae by Hosius and Von der Marck (1880); to Potamogetonaceae by Stockmans (1936) and Chandler (1961); to Posidonioideae by den Hartog (1970); and to Posidoniaceae by den Hartog and Kuo (2006).
It was assigned to Najadeae by Hosius and Von der Marck (1880); to Potamogetonaceae by Stockmans (1936) and Chandler (1961); to Posidonioideae by den Hartog (1970); and to Posidoniaceae by den Hartog and Kuo (2006).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1805 | Posidonia Konig p. 95 |
| 1828 | Caulinites Brongniart p. 115 |
| 1880 | Caulinites Ettinghausen p. 393 |
| 1880 | Posidonia Hosius and Von der Marck p. 134 |
| 1936 | Posidonia Stockmans p. 26 |
| 1961 | Posidonia Chandler p. 117 |
| 1970 | Posidonia den Hartog p. 120 |
| 2006 | Posidonia den Hartog and Kuo p. 10 |
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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. Posidonia Konig 1805
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Posidonia australis Hook 1858
Posidonia caulini Konig 1805
†Posidonia cretacea Hosius and Von der Marck 1880
Posidonia oceanica Linnaeus 1758
Posidonia ostenfeldii den Hartog 1970
Invalid names: Caulinites Brongniart 1828 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 83.50000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 70.6 Ma
Collections (15 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | Germany | P. cretacea (63974) | |
| Ypresian | United Kingdom (England) | Caulinites sheppyensis (22811) | |
| Eocene | Belgium | P. pariseinsis (124453 124454 124455 124460 124462) | |
| Lutetian | United Kingdom (England) | P. sp. (8124) | |
| Lutetian | Belgium (Brussels) | P. pariseinsis (124461) | |
| Lutetian | Belgium (Vlaams-Brabant) | P. pariseinsis (38719) | |
| Lutetian | Belgium (Brabant) | P. pariseinsis (124459) | |
| Lutetian | Belgium | P. pariseinsis (124457) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Greece (Rhodes) | P. oceanica (122994) | |
| Zanclean | Spain | P. sp. (123588) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy | Posidonia indet. (166074) |