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Mycetopodinae

Bivalvia - Unionida - Mulleriidae

Taxonomy
Mycetopodidae was named by Gray (1840). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Mycetopodinae by Carter et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Etherioidea by Bieler and Mikkelsen (2006), Bouchet et al. (2010); and to Mulleriidae by Carter et al. (2011).

Sister taxa
Anodontitinae (syn. Bartlettiinae, Glabarinae)

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1840Mycetopodidae Gray
1973Acostaeidae Morrison
2006Mycetopodidae Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 230
2010Mycetopodidae Bouchet et al.
2011Mycetopodinae Carter et al. p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
RankNameAuthor
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
UniomorphiGray 1854
UnioniGray 1854
UnionataGray 1854
orderUnionida(Stoliczka 1871)
suborderUnionidinaGray 1854
superfamilyMullerioideaDeshayes 1832
familyMulleriidaeDeshayes 1832
subfamilyMycetopodinae(Gray 1840)
subfamilyMycetopodinae(Gray 1840)

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.

Subfm. Mycetopodinae Gray 1840
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Subfm. Anodontitinae Modell 1942
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G. Anodontites Bruguière 1792
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Anodontites batesi Woodward 1871
Anodontites capax Conrad 1874
Invalid names: Bartlettiinae Modell 1942 [synonym], Glabarinae Modell 1942 [synonym]
G. Mycetopoda d'Orbigny 1835
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Mycetopoda pittieri Marshall 1927
Invalid names: Acostaeidae Morrison 1973 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Environment: freshwatero
Locomotion: facultatively mobilec
Life habit: infaunalc
Diet: suspension feederc
Vision: blindc
Created: 2017-04-17 10:29:05
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:29:05
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Tortonian or 72.20000 to 7.24600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Brazil (São Paulo) Anodontites sp. (83262)
Middle Miocene - Tortonian15.98 - 7.246Peru Anodontites capax (143106)
Middle Miocene - Tortonian15.98 - 7.246Colombia Anodontites batesi, Anodontites capax (143002)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Argentina (Salta) Anodontites sp. (206042)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Brazil Anodontites trapesialis (141845) Anodontites trapesialis, Mycetopoda pittieri (141844)