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Unio biesopoides Whitfield, 1907 †
1502551 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1502551)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
fossil only
Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
Holotype AMNH 26295
, Note "130 miles northwest of Miles City, Montana,...
Holotype AMNH 26295 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "130 miles northwest of Miles City, Montana, 180 feet above Pierre shales", USA; Laramie Fm., Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous [details]
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Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
basis of record Henderson, J. (1935). Fossil non-marine Mollusca of North America. <em>Geological Society of America Special Papers.</em> 3: 1-313.
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
basis of record Henderson, J. (1935). Fossil non-marine Mollusca of North America. <em>Geological Society of America Special Papers.</em> 3: 1-313.
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AMNH 26295 [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling Multiple original spellings were used in Whitfield (1907): biesopoides, biaesopoides, bidesopoides. [details]Type locality "130 miles northwest of Miles City, Montana, 180 feet above Pierre shales", USA; Laramie Fm., Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous [details]
