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Actinodonta ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4591913	https://www.gbif.org/species/4591913
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17103	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17103

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Hippuritida : Cycloconchidae : Actinodonta

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Grammysiidae : Actinodonta

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
superfamily	Grammysioidea	Miller 1877
family	Grammysiidae	Miller 1877
genus	Actinodonta	Phillips 1848

Scientific Name

Actinodonta Phillips, 1848

Name Published In

Mem. Geol. Surv. Gt. Brit., 2 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Actinodonta	genus	belongs to Cycloconchidae	stated with evidence	Cox et al., 1969
Actinodonta	genus	belongs to Modiomorphoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Actinodonta	genus	belongs to Actinodontidae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 472 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Bivalvia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Bivalvia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Actinodonta cuneata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Actinodonta ramseyensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Davidia antiqua ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		29	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Modiolopsis ramseyensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1848	Actinodonta Philipps p. 225
1873	Davidia Hicks p. 49
1969	Actinodonta Cox et al. p. N399
1969	Davidia Cox et al. p. N820
2002	Actinodonta Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Actinodonta Bouchet et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Hicks H. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29 1, 39-52

Cox L. R., Newell N. D., et al (1969) Mollusca 6: Bivalvia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1, N1-N489

Cox L. R., Newell N. D., et al (1969) Mollusca 6: Bivalvia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1 N, N491-N952

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

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

Mem. Geol. Surv. Gt. Brit., 2 (1) - 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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