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Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy

Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli was named by Gardner (1947) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Miocene; Florida.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352540, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 5193 - Crowder's Crossing [Shoal River Fm], which is in a Serravallian marine marl/sandstone in the Shoal River Formation of Florida.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

D. angulosa, D. bensoni, D. juvenilis, D. lambata, D. meridionalis, D. ongleyi, D. steinmanni, D. striatissima, D. troscheli, D. whitleyi, D. lambata, D. cuspidata, D. palmeriae, D. ongleyi, D. kaneharai, D. kaneharai, D. mackayi, D. waiparaensis, D. maoriana, D. owadaensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1947	Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli Gardner p. 154 figs. pl. 24, figs. 3-5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
—	Veneroidei	(Gray 1854)
—	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Veneroidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Veneridae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Venerinae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Dosiniini	(Deshayes 1858)
genus	Dosinia	Scopoli 1777
subgenus	Dosinidia
species	dalli

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli Gardner 1947

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitef

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-04 16:34:29

Modified:

2009-09-04 18:34:29

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Serravallian or 13.82000 to 11.62000 Ma

Collections (15 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	USA (Florida)	Dosinia dalli (42692 42870 42886 type locality: 42890 42891 42892 43014 43023 43024 43028 80018 80019 94810 111204 136943)