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Pecten rhodani Fontannes, 1878 †
1641161 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1641161)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Fontannes, F. (1878). <i>Études stratigraphiques et paléontologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la Période Tertiaire dans le Bassin du Rhône. III. Le bassin de Visan, Vaucluse</i>. Georg, Lyon; F. Savy, Paris; x + 110 pp. + 5 pls.
page(s): 79-80, pl. 1, fig. 2 [details]
page(s): 79-80, pl. 1, fig. 2 [details]
Type locality contained in France
type locality contained in France [details]
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Fontannes, F. (1878). <i>Études stratigraphiques et paléontologiques pour servir à l'histoire de la Période Tertiaire dans le Bassin du Rhône. III. Le bassin de Visan, Vaucluse</i>. Georg, Lyon; F. Savy, Paris; x + 110 pp. + 5 pls.
page(s): 79-80, pl. 1, fig. 2 [details]
basis of record Fontannes, F. (1876). Etudes stratigraphiques et paleontologiques pour servir a l'historie de la Période Tertiaire dans le Bassin du Rhone. II. Les terrains Tertiaires Supérieurs du Haut Comtat-Venaissin. Lyon, Paris, 98 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5439003t.texteImage
page(s): 48; note: nomen nudum [details]
additional source Teppner, W. von. (1922). Lamellibranchia Tertiaria, Anisomyaria II. <em>In C. Diener, ed., Fossilium Catalogus, I. Animalia, Pars (15). W. Junk. Berlin.</em> p. 67–296., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50675959
page(s): 121 [details]
page(s): 79-80, pl. 1, fig. 2 [details]
basis of record Fontannes, F. (1876). Etudes stratigraphiques et paleontologiques pour servir a l'historie de la Période Tertiaire dans le Bassin du Rhone. II. Les terrains Tertiaires Supérieurs du Haut Comtat-Venaissin. Lyon, Paris, 98 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5439003t.texteImage
page(s): 48; note: nomen nudum [details]
additional source Teppner, W. von. (1922). Lamellibranchia Tertiaria, Anisomyaria II. <em>In C. Diener, ed., Fossilium Catalogus, I. Animalia, Pars (15). W. Junk. Berlin.</em> p. 67–296., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50675959
page(s): 121 [details]




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Authority Authorship attributed to K. Mayer, who seems to have discovered and named the species. The description is, however, apparently from Fontannes. [details]