MolluscaBase taxon details
Plethobasus aesopiformis (Whitfield, 1903) †
1501928 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1501928)
accepted
Species
Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903 † · unaccepted > superseded combination
fossil only
(of Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903 †) Whitfield, R.P. (1903). Notice of six new species of Unios from the Laramie Group. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 19(15): 483-487., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/659//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B019a15.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
page(s): 483-484, pl. 38, figs 1-5 [details]
page(s): 483-484, pl. 38, figs 1-5 [details]
Holotype (of Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903) AMNH 9621
, Type locality contained in Montana
Holotype (of Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903) AMNH 9621 [details]
type locality contained in Montana [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Plethobasus aesopiformis (Whitfield, 1903) †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1501928 on 2024-04-16
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(of Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903 †) Whitfield, R.P. (1903). Notice of six new species of Unios from the Laramie Group. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 19(15): 483-487., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/659//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B019a15.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
page(s): 483-484, pl. 38, figs 1-5 [details]
basis of record Russell, L.S. (1976). Pelecypods of the Hell Creek Formation (Uppermost Cretaceous) of Garfield County, Montana. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 13: 365-388. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Scholz, H.; Hartman, J. H. (2007). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity. <em>Palaios.</em> 22(1): 24-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2005.p05-059r [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Watters, G.T. (2001). The Evolution of the Unionacea in North America, and Its Implications for the Worldwide Fauna. In: Bauer, G.; Wächtler, K. (eds) Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 281-307
page(s): 288 [details]
page(s): 483-484, pl. 38, figs 1-5 [details]
basis of record Russell, L.S. (1976). Pelecypods of the Hell Creek Formation (Uppermost Cretaceous) of Garfield County, Montana. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 13: 365-388. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Scholz, H.; Hartman, J. H. (2007). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity. <em>Palaios.</em> 22(1): 24-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2005.p05-059r [details] Available for editors
[request] status source Watters, G.T. (2001). The Evolution of the Unionacea in North America, and Its Implications for the Worldwide Fauna. In: Bauer, G.; Wächtler, K. (eds) Ecology and Evolution of the Freshwater Mussels Unionoida. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 281-307
page(s): 288 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Unio aesopiformis Whitfield, 1903) AMNH 9621 [details]
From editor or global species database
Classification Belongs in an undescribed genus according to Watters (2001). [details]
