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Tesseracme
Taxonomy
Tesseracme was named by Pilsbry (1898) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m R]. It is extant.
It was reranked as Dentalium (Tesseracme) by Pilsbry and Olsson (1941).
It was assigned to Dentalium by Pilsbry and Olsson (1941); to Scaphopoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Dentaliidae by Wells and Houston (2001) and Reynolds and Steiner (2008).
It was reranked as Dentalium (Tesseracme) by Pilsbry and Olsson (1941).
It was assigned to Dentalium by Pilsbry and Olsson (1941); to Scaphopoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Dentaliidae by Wells and Houston (2001) and Reynolds and Steiner (2008).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1898 | Tesseracme Pilsbry |
| 1941 | Dentalium (Tesseracme) Pilsbry and Olsson p. 9 |
| 2001 | Tesseracme Wells and Houston p. 106 |
| 2002 | Tesseracme Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Tesseracme Reynolds and Steiner p. 147 figs. Table 7.1 |
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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. Tesseracme Pilsbry 1898
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections (34 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Miocene | Haiti | Dentalium dissimile (92454) | |
| Tortonian | Panama (Darien) | T. sp. (136122) | |
| Tortonian | Panama (Colon) | T. sp. (79783 79785 79984 79996 79997) | |
| Tortonian | Panama | Dentalium dissimile (52171) T. sp. (145522) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Costa Rica (Limon) | Dentalium dissimile (96520) | |
| Messinian | Panama (Bocas del Toro) | T. sp. (135816 135821 135822 135828) | |
| Messinian | Panama (Bocas) | T. sp. (135944) | |
| Messinian | Panama (Colon) | T. sp. (79855) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Dominican Republic | T. dissimile (74966) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Ecuador (Esmeraldas) | T. tesseragona (135043) | |
| Zanclean | Panama (Bocas del Toro) | T. sp. (79982) | |
| Pliocene | India | Dentalium proteiforme (77658) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Jamaica | Dentalium dissimile (58522) T. dissimile (69090 69093 69094) | |
| Piacenzian | Panama (Bocas del Toro) | T. sp. (61339 61340 61344) | |
| Piacenzian | Costa Rica (Limon) | T. sp. (79796 79800 79990) | |
| Piacenzian | Ecuador (Manabi) | Dentalium tesseragonum (51880) | |
| Gelasian | Ecuador (Manabi) | Dentalium tesseragonum (51879) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Dentalium caloosaense, Dentalium prisma (79331 79338) |