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Taxonomy
Ostrea angulata was named by Sowerby (1840) [DISTRIBUTION: Oligocene-Early Miocene; Europe, Pakistan.]. It is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Crassostrea angulata by Raith et al. (2016).
It was recombined as Crassostrea angulata by Raith et al. (2016).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1840 | Ostrea angulata Sowerby figs. pl. 25, fig. 17 |
| 1928 | Ostrea angulata Vredenburg p. 422 |
| 1980 | Ostrea angulata Iqbal p. 28 |
| 2016 | Crassostrea angulata Raith et al. p. 269 figs. fig. 3 |
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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.
†Crassostrea angulata Sowerby 1840
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 33.90000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Oligocene | Pakistan | Ostrea angulata (77451 77452 77453) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | India (Kutch) | Ostrea angulata (65050) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | India | Ostrea angulata (72083) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Pakistan | Ostrea angulata (77160 77454 77456) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) | Ostrea angulata (41473) |