Welcome to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology! -->
Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.
Falcimytilus
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Bivalvia
Subclass:
Pteriomorphia
Order:
Mytiloida
Superfamily:
Mytilacea (mussels)
Family:
Mytilidae
Subfamily:
Modiolinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Falcimytilus COX, 1937, p. 343
Type Species:
Mytilus (F.) suprajurensis COX, 1937, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. C20,6. *F. suprajurensis (Cox), U.Jur. (Kimmeridg.), Eng., RV ext., X1 (182)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-India
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jur.
Beginning International Stage:
Hettangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
201.36
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jur.
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Sickle-shaped, with bluntly pointed terminal beaks and blunt, strongly curved carina which runs from beak to posteroventral corner, edentulous, anterior adductor scar small, situated in umbonal angle
References
Cox, L. R., 1937, Notes on Jurassic Lamellibranchia. 1. On the occurrence of the genus Palaeoneilo in the Jurassic of Great Britain: Malacol. Soc. London, Proc., v. 22, p. 190-193, pl. 15.
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Bivalvia
Subclass:
Pteriomorphia
Order:
Mytiloida
Superfamily:
Mytilacea (mussels)
Family:
Mytilidae
Subfamily:
Modiolinae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Falcimytilus COX, 1937, p. 343
Type Species:
Mytilus (F.) suprajurensis COX, 1937, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. C20,6. *F. suprajurensis (Cox), U.Jur. (Kimmeridg.), Eng., RV ext., X1 (182)
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu.-India
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jur.
Beginning International Stage:
Hettangian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
201.36
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Jur.
Ending International Stage:
Tithonian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
143.1
Description
Sickle-shaped, with bluntly pointed terminal beaks and blunt, strongly curved carina which runs from beak to posteroventral corner, edentulous, anterior adductor scar small, situated in umbonal angle
References
Cox, L. R., 1937, Notes on Jurassic Lamellibranchia. 1. On the occurrence of the genus Palaeoneilo in the Jurassic of Great Britain: Malacol. Soc. London, Proc., v. 22, p. 190-193, pl. 15.