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Gryphaea accipiter
Taxonomy
Gryphaea accipiter was named by Anderson (1958). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pacheco Group - near Peterson Ranch, Sites, Colusa, which is in a Cenomanian marine horizon in California.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1958 | Gryphaea accipiter Anderson p. 107 figs. Plate 2, figures 5, 5a, 5b |
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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.
†Gryphaea accipiter Anderson 1958
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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F. M. Anderson 1958 | Shell small, inequivalve, lower valve deep, narrow, and beaklike; upper valve smaller and less strongly arched, beak elevated, narrow, spirally coiled; valve triangular in outline, ex panded behind; surface smooth, or polished, marked only by concentric growth lines; upper valve smaller, shallow, beak coiling oppositely. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class | |||||
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2003, Steuber 2002, Kiessling 2004 |
Age range: Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Cenomanian | USA (California) | Gryphaea accipiter (type locality: 44203) |