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Elegantinia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4595017	https://www.gbif.org/species/4595017
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	88902	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=88902

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Trigoniida : Myophoriidae : Elegantinia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Trigoniida : Myophoriidae : Elegantinia

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
-	Uniomorphi	Gray 1854
-	Unioni	Gray 1854
-	Unionata	Gray 1854
order	Trigoniida
superfamily	Trigonioidea	Lamarck 1819
family	Myophoriidae	Bronn 1847
genus	Elegantinia	Waagen 1907

Scientific Name

Elegantinia Waagen, 1907

Name Published In

Abh. Geol. Reichsanst., Wien, 18

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Elegantinia	subgenus	belongs to Myophoria	stated with evidence	Waagen, 1907
Elegantinia	genus	belongs to Myophoriidae	stated with evidence	Hautmann, 2001
Elegantinia	genus	belongs to Myophoriidae	stated without evidence	Ros-Franch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 247 Ma
Phanerozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Trigoniida)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Trigoniida)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Waagen. 1907. Die Lamellibranchiaten der Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alm nebst vergleichend paläontologischen und phylogenetischen Studien. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(2):1-180

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Elegantinia elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		42	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Elegantinia grahami species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Elegantinia jingguensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Elegantinia lijiangensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Elegantinia paullorum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Elegantinia venusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Myophoria (Elegantinia) grahami ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Myophoria (Elegantinia) venusta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		9	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	232 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Myophoria venusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lyriomyophoria Kobayashi, 1954	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Trigoniida : Myophoriidae : *Lyriomyophoria*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1907	Myophoria (Elegantinia) Waagen
1954	Lyriomyophoria Kobayashi
1976	Myophoria (Elegantinia) Gu et al. p. 46
1980	Lyriomyophoria Vokes p. 97
2001	Elegantinia Hautmann
2002	Lyriomyophoria Sepkoski, Jr.
2014	Elegantinia Ros-Franch et al.

References

Waagen L. (1907) Die Lamellibranchiaten der Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alm nebst vergleichend paläontologischen und phylogenetischen Studien, Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18 2, 1-180

Gu Z. W., Huang B. Y., et al (1976) , The Fossil Lamellibranchiata of China, 1-522

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

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Abh. Geol. Reichsanst., Wien, 18 - 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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