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Unionellidae Skawina & Dzik 2011

Description

FAMILY UNIONELLIDAE NOV.

Diagnosis: A series of pedal elevator attachments linearly arranged on the external wall of the shell beak cavity.

Genera included: Unionella Etheridge, 1888, Protovirgus McMichael, 1957.

Notes

Published as part of Skawina, Aleksandra & Dzik, Jerzy, 2011, Umbonal musculature and relationships of the Late Triassic filibranch unionoid bivalves, pp. 863-883 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (3) on page 874, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00728.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5441920

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Unionellidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Unionida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Skawina & Dzik
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Unionellidae Skawina, 2011 sec. Skawina & Dzik, 2011

References

  • Etheridge R Jr. 1888. The invertebrate fauna of the Hawkesbury-Wianamatta Series. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales Palaeontology 1: 1 - 26.
  • McMichael DF. 1957. A review of the fossil freshwater mussels (Mollusca, Pelecypoda) of Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 222 - 244.