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Lithophaga

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Lithophaga, the date mussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Some of the earliest fossil Lithophaga shells have been found in Mesozoic rocks from the Alps and from Vancouver Island.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithophaga, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2285722	https://www.gbif.org/species/2285722
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16370	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16370

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : Lithophaga

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : Lithophaga

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	Pteriomorphia
-	Mytilomorphi	Ferussac 1822
order	Mytilida
superfamily	Mytiloidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Mytilidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Lithophaga	Röding 1798

Scientific Name

Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Name Published In

Röding, Peter F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten, M. D.p.d. per XL. annos Proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars Secunda conineus Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Johan Christi. Trappii, Hamburgi.: i–viii; 1–199.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	stated without evidence	Glenn, 1904
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	stated with evidence	Hertlein and Grant, 1972
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	implied	Lamprell and Healy, 1998
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Mytiloida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Mytilidae	stated without evidence	Mikkelsen, 2006
Lithophaga	genus	belongs to Lithophaginae	stated without evidence	Morales-Ortega et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

13 (30%)

First Recorded Appearance

339 - 336 Ma
Carboniferous

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwater (based on Mytilidae)

Motility

stationary

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Mytilidae)

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 551. LIFE HISTORY: Boring, suspension-feeder (McKerrow, 1979); WB, IM/SE, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite, low Mg calcite,intermediate,minor ribbing (based on Mytilidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Common Name(s)

Date Mussels, Meeresdatteln, Seedatteln, Datemussels, シギノハシ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithophaga

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lithophaga (Diberus) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		9	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga (Labis) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga (Lithophaga) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		15	183 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga (Myoforceps) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithodomus atavus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithodomus australis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Lithodomus beetzi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Lithodomus brevis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithodomus claibornensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Lithodomus elongatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithodomus hemirhabdota ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithodomus inflexus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithodomus permianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Lithodomus portlandicus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithodomus praelongus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithodomus sublithophagus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Lithophaga affinis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Lithophaga antillarum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga aristata species	listed (PBDB)		10	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga atavus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	260 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Lithophaga caperata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga carolinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga clarki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga conchafodentis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lithophaga consobrina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		9	279 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Lithophaga cookei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga cordata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Lithophaga curta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga cylindrica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga divaricalix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga elongata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga fabella species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		55	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Lithophaga gigantea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		5	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Lithophaga gracilis species	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga gradata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga hempsteadiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga inclusa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		29	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Lithophaga inflexa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga ionensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga kuhnelti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga lingua species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga lingula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga lithodomoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga lithophaga species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		54	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga lycetti species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Lithophaga maikaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Lithophaga marylandica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga mckinghti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Leiosolenus mucronatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Leiosolenus lima species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Lithophaga nelsoniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga nigra species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga nuda species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Lithophaga oryzoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga petricolides species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga petricoloides species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Lithophaga praelonga ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga punctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga robusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga rogersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga striminea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga subalveata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Lithophaga subelliptica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	303 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous
Lithophaga suboblonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga teres species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Lithophaga tubicola ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Lithophaga tubicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga twitchelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithophaga yorkensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lithophaga zitteliana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Modiola affinis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Modiola cordata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Modiola tubicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Granulatus Wang, 1997	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Granulatus*
Lithotornus Schweigger, 1820	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lithotornus*
Lithophagus Megerle, 1811	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lithophagus*
Bithophagus Duarte, 1938	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Bithophagus*
Diberus Dall, 1898	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Diberus*
Lihophagus Stoppani, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lihophagus*
Rupiphaga Olsson, 1961	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Rupiphaga*
Lithotomus Nitzsche, 1825	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lithotomus*
Lithodomus Cuvier, 1816	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lithodomus*
Lithodoma Blainville, 1823	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lithodoma*
Lythodomus d'Orbigny, 1850	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Mytilida : Mytilidae : *Lythodomus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1798	Lithophaga Röding
1817	Lithodomus Cuvier p. 471
1904	Lithophaga Glenn p. 364
1926	Lithodomus Bohm p. 59
1956	Paychoya Lutkevich and Lobanova p. 72
1972	Lithophaga Hertlein and Grant p. 169
1980	Lithophaga Vokes p. 25
1982	Lithophaga Woodring p. 724

Year	Name and Author
1984	Lithodomus Scholz p. 475
1987	Lithophaga Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1998	Lithophaga Lamprell and Healy p. 92
2002	Lithophaga Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Lithophaga Mikkelsen
2014	Lithophaga Ros-Franch et al.
2016	Lithophaga Morales-Ortega et al. p. 9

References

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

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Bohm J. (1926) Über Tertiäre versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser diamantfeldern, Beiträge zur geologischen Erforschung der deutschen Schutzgebiete 2, 55-87

Lutkevich E. M., Lobanova O. V. (1956) Taxonomic names, Materialy po Paleontologii, Novye Semeystva i Rody, 72-74

Hertlein L. G., Grant U. S. (1972) The Geology and Paleontology of the Marine Pliocene of San Diego, California (Paleontology: Pelecypoda), San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 2 B, 135-411

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Woodring W. P. (1982) Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae)., United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306 F

Scholz H. (1984) Bioherme und Biostrome im Allgäuer Schrattenkalk (Helvetikum, Unterkreide)., Jahrbuch der geologischen Bundesanstalt 127 3, 471-499

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Lamprell K., Healy J. (1998) , Bivalves of Australia 2

Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Western Atlantic Bivalves [http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves.html]

Ros-Franch S., Márquez-Aliaga A., et al (2014) Comprehensive database on Induan (Lower Triassic) to Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) marine bivalve genera and their paleobiogeographic record, Paleontological Contributions 8, 1-219

Morales-Ortega P., González-Barba G., et al (2016) New Eocene bivalves from Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Paleontología Mexicana 5 1, 1-19

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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

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

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Bolton, J. F.; Dall, W. H. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive Testacea, univalvia, Bivalvia & multivalvia. Johan. Christi. Trappii, Hamburg. i-viii, 1-199. - via World Register of Marine Species

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Kleeman K.H. (1983) Catalogue of recent and fossil Lithophaga (Bivalvia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, supplement 12: 1-46. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Hamburg: Trapp. viii, 199 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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