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Amusium mortoni
Taxonomy
Pecten mortoni was named by Ravenel (1844) [DISTRIBUTION: Late Miocene-Early Pleistocene; Atlantic Coastal Plain.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Loc. 237 - The Grove [Waccamaw Fm], which is in a Pleistocene coastal marl in the Waccamaw Formation of South Carolina.
It was recombined as Pecten (Amusium) mortoni by Dall (1898), Glenn (1904) and Graban and Shimer (1909); it was recombined as Amussium mortoni by Böse (1906); it was recombined as Amusium mortoni by Mansfield (1932), Gardner (1943), DuBar (1958) and Hendy et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Pecten (Amusium) mortoni by Dall (1898), Glenn (1904) and Graban and Shimer (1909); it was recombined as Amussium mortoni by Böse (1906); it was recombined as Amusium mortoni by Mansfield (1932), Gardner (1943), DuBar (1958) and Hendy et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1844 | Pecten mortoni Ravenel p. 96 |
| 1898 | Pecten (Amusium) mortoni Dall p. 757 |
| 1904 | Pecten (Amusium) mortoni Glenn p. 372 |
| 1906 | Amussium mortoni Böse pp. 24, 74 |
| 1909 | Pecten (Amusium) mortoni Graban and Shimer p. 508 |
| 1929 | Pecten mortoni Anderson p. 155 |
| 1932 | Amusium mortoni Mansfield p. 64 |
| 1943 | Amusium mortoni Gardner p. 39 |
| 1958 | Amusium mortoni DuBar p. 160 |
| 2008 | Amusium mortoni Hendy et al. |
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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.
†Amusium mortoni Ravenel 1844
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available