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Acteon cretacea Gabb, 1861 †
1831804 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1831804)
accepted
Species
Actaeon cretacea Gabb, 1861 † · unaccepted (genus name is an unjustified emendation)
Acteon forbesiana Whitfield, 1892 † · unaccepted
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Actaeon cretacea Gabb, 1861 †) Gabb, W. M. (1861). Descriptions of new species of Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey, Alabama and Mississippi. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 13: 318-330., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683447
page(s): 318 [details]
page(s): 318 [details]
Type locality contained in New Jersey
type locality contained in New Jersey [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
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original description
(of Actaeon cretacea Gabb, 1861 †) Gabb, W. M. (1861). Descriptions of new species of Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey, Alabama and Mississippi. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 13: 318-330., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1683447
page(s): 318 [details]
original description (of Acteon forbesiana Whitfield, 1892 †) Whitfield R.P. (1892). Gastropoda and Cephalopoda of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. <em>United States Geological Survey Monograph.</em> 18: 1-402, 50 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42454439
page(s): 157, pl. 19 figs 17–22 [details]
basis of record Cunha, C. M. & Salvador, R. B. (2018). Type specimens of fossil “Architectibranchia” and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 94(2): 505-527., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401
page(s): 508, fig. 1Q-R [details]
page(s): 318 [details]
original description (of Acteon forbesiana Whitfield, 1892 †) Whitfield R.P. (1892). Gastropoda and Cephalopoda of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey. <em>United States Geological Survey Monograph.</em> 18: 1-402, 50 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42454439
page(s): 157, pl. 19 figs 17–22 [details]
basis of record Cunha, C. M. & Salvador, R. B. (2018). Type specimens of fossil “Architectibranchia” and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 94(2): 505-527., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401
page(s): 508, fig. 1Q-R [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
