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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Trigoniida : Trigonodidae : Unionites : Unionites muensteri |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Trigoniida : Trigonodidae : Unionites : Unionites muensteri |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Unionites |
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| Scientific Name | Unionites muensteri (Wissmann, 1841) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Unionites muensteri | species | belongs to Unionites | stated with evidence | Wissmann, 1841 | | Unionites muensteri | species | belongs to Anoplophora | stated without evidence | Laube, 1865 | | Unionites muensteri | species | belongs to Anodontophora | stated without evidence | Cox, 1924 | | Unionites muensteri | species | belongs to Unionites | stated with evidence | Foster et al., 2019 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 247 - 242 Ma
Triassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 222 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic |
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| Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Trigoniida) |
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| Vision | blind (based on Bivalvia) |
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| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Trigoniida) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Bivalvia) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | H. L. Wissmann. 1841. Taxonomic names, in Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian. Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4:1-152 |
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| Wissmann H. L. Taxonomic names, in Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian, Beiträge zur Petrefacten-Kunde 4, 1-152 |
| Laube G. C. , Die Fauna der Schichten von St. Cassian: Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie der Alpinen Trias. II. Abtheilung. Brachiopoden und Bivalven, 1-76 |
| Cox L. R. (1924) A Triassic fauna from the Jordan Valley, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14 79, 52-96 doi:10.1080/00222932408633092 |
| Awad G. H. (1945) On the occurence of Marine Triassic (Muschelkalk) deposits in Sinai, Bulletin de L’Institut d’Egypte 27, 397-429 |
| Foster W. J., Lehrmann D. J., et al (2019) Early Triassic benthic invertebrates from the Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: systematic palaeontology and palaeobiology, Papers in Palaeontology 5, 613-656 doi:DOI:10.1002/spp2.1252 |
Unionites muensteri ✝
