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Plagioptychus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3247918	https://www.gbif.org/species/3247918
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	84236	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=84236

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Hippuritida : Plagioptychidae : Plagioptychus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Hippuritida : Plagioptychidae : Plagioptychus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Hippuritida
suborder	Radiolitidina	Skelton 2013
superfamily	Radiolitoidea	Gray 1848
family	Plagioptychidae	Douvillé 1888
genus	Plagioptychus	Matheron 1842

Scientific Name

Plagioptychus Matheron, 1842

Name Published In

Matheron, P. (1843). Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des corps organisés fossiles du départment des Bouches-du-Rhône et lieux circonvoisins. Répertoire des travaux de la Société de statistique de Marseille. 6: 81-341.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Plagioptychus	genus	belongs to Plagioptychidae	stated without evidence	Steuber, 1999
Plagioptychus	genus	belongs to Plagioptychidae	stated with evidence	Skelton, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Hippuritida)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Hippuritida)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Hippuritida)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite, aragonite (based on Hippuritida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. Steuber. 1999. Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece. Special Papers in Palaeontology 61:5-229

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Plagioptychus agariciformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus aguilloni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		33	89.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Plagioptychus antillarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus arnaudi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus beoticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus fragilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus haueri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus minor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus muellerriedi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus paradoxus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus piolencensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus roquebrunensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus toucasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus toucasianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus uchauxensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus uchauxiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Plagioptychus zansi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1842	Plagioptychus Matheron
1999	Plagioptychus Steuber
2010	Plagioptychus Bouchet et al.
2013	Plagioptychus Skelton

References

Steuber T. (1999) Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece, Special Papers in Palaeontology 61, 5-229

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Skelton P. W. (2013) Rudist classification for the revised Bivalvia volumes of the "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology", Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 45, 9-33

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Catal. méth. Foss. B. du Rhône, 114 (as Plagiotychus). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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