WoRMS taxon details
Bositra de Gregorio, 1886 †
1647445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1647445)
accepted
Genus
Posidonia ornati Quenstedt, 1851 † accepted as Bositra ornati (Quenstedt, 1851) † (type by subsequent designation)
Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 † · unaccepted > superseded rank
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 †) Gregorio, A. de (1886). Monographie des fossiles de Valpore (Mont Grappa) du sous-horizon Grappin De Greg. Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie, 2: 1-20 pp, pls. 1-6.
page(s): 11 [details]
page(s): 11 [details]
Note Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was...
Type species Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was the type species by OD, but de Gregorio included three nominal species in Bositra and did not designate a type species [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bositra de Gregorio, 1886 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1647445 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 †) Gregorio, A. de (1886). Monographie des fossiles de Valpore (Mont Grappa) du sous-horizon Grappin De Greg. Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie, 2: 1-20 pp, pls. 1-6.
page(s): 11 [details]
basis of record Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 19-20 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 11 [details]
basis of record Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 19-20 [details] Available for editors

Other
subsequent type designation
Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp.
page(s): 343 [details]
page(s): 343 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type species Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was the type species by OD, but de Gregorio included three nominal species in Bositra and did not designate a type species [details]