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Thyasira cretacea

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae

Taxonomy

Conchocele cretacea was named by Whiteaves (1873).

It was recombined as Thyasira cretacea by Whiteaves (1903), Anderson (1958).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

T. addocasa, T. angulata, T. arctica, T. baca, T. benedeni, T. bisecta, T. delorioli, T. djakovi, T. goodhalli, T. hataii, T. himedoensis, T. ignota, T. mirinovi, T. motutaraensis, T. nysti, T. obtusa, T. ochotica, T. oliveri, T. pfaffi, T. rostrata, T. snatolensis, T. tigiliana, T. trisinuata, T. tumida, T. uncinata, T. wajampolkana, T. brongniarti, T. flexuosa, T. tokungai

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1873	Conchocele cretacea Whiteaves p. 266 figs. Pl. of fossils, figs. 2, 2a
1903	Thyasira cretacea Whiteaves p. 383
1958	Thyasira cretacea Anderson p. 133 figs. Plate 15, figures 4, 5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida	(Stoliczka 1871)
superfamily	Thyasiroidea	Dall 1900
family	Thyasiridae	Dall 1901
genus	Thyasira	Lamarck 1818
species	cretacea	(Whiteaves 1873)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Thyasira cretacea Whiteaves 1873

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

chemosymbioticg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-09 14:03:16

Modified:

2009-09-09 16:03:16

Source: g = genus, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Albian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 113.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian	113.2 - 110.1	USA (California)	Thyasira cretacea (176021)
Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	USA (California)	Thyasira cretacea (44214 44239)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (California)	Thyasira cretacea (86819 151977)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Angola	Thyasira cretacea (1369)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Tunisia	Thyasira cretacea (1365)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Libya	Thyasira cretacea (1370)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Egypt	Thyasira cretacea (1363)