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Palaeoheterodonta (disused)

Bivalvia

Taxonomy
Palaeoheterodonta was named by Newell (1965) [m. kosnik taxon no: 6495].

It was corrected as Paleoheterodonta by Shoshani et al. (1989); it was reranked as the unranked clade Palaeoheterodonta by Bouchet et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Pelecypoda by Shoshani (1989) and Shoshani et al. (1989); to Bivalvia by Newell (1965), Vokes (1980), Cope (1997) and Reid (1998); to Heteroconchia by Giribet and Wheeler (2002) and Bieler and Mikkelsen (2006); and to Heteroconchia by Bouchet et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Palaeoheterodonta Newell p. 16
1980Palaeoheterodonta Vokes p. 69
1989Paleoheterodonta Shoshani
1989Paleoheterodonta Shoshani et al. p. 435
1997Palaeoheterodonta Cope p. 722
1998Palaeoheterodonta Reid
2002Palaeoheterodonta Giribet and Wheeler
2006Palaeoheterodonta Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 230
2010Palaeoheterodonta Bouchet et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
subclassPalaeoheterodonta
subclassPalaeoheterodonta

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.

Subcl. †Palaeoheterodonta Newell 1965
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