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Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy

Dosinia ausiensis was named by Ilyina (1957) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene; northeast Pacific.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis by Gladenkov et al. (1987), Amano and Khudik (1996) and Kafanov and Ogasawara (2003).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. angulosa, D. bensoni, D. juvenilis, D. lambata, D. meridionalis, D. ongleyi, D. steinmanni, D. striatissima, D. troscheli, D. whitleyi, D. lambata, D. cuspidata, D. palmeriae, D. ongleyi, D. kaneharai, D. kaneharai, D. mackayi, D. waiparaensis, D. maoriana, D. owadaensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1957	Dosinia ausiensis Ilyina pp. 228, 229 figs. pl. 18, figs. 7, 8
1987	Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis Gladenkov et al. p. 35 figs. Fig. 3
1996	Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis Amano and Khudik p. 657
2003	Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis Kafanov and Ogasawara p. 51

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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)
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
—	Veneroidei	(Gray 1854)
—	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Veneroidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Veneridae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Venerinae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Dosiniini	(Deshayes 1858)
genus	Dosinia	Scopoli 1777
subgenus	Kaneharaia	(Makiyama 1936)
species	ausiensis	()

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.

†Dosinia (Kaneharaia) ausiensis Ilyina 1957

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
height	3	37.6	26.5	54.1	37.2	13.9

Composition:

aragonitef

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-04 16:34:29

Modified:

2009-09-04 18:34:29

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Pliocene or 15.97000 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Russian Federation	Dosinia ausiensis (70446 70568)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Russian Federation (Sakhalinskaya)	Dosinia ausiensis (61932 61933)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	Russian Federation	Dosinia ausiensis (70470)