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Waagenoperna

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Bivalvia
    Subclass:  
Pteriomorphia
    Order:  
Pterioida
    Suborder:  
Pteriina
    Superfamily:  
Pteriacea
    Family:  
Isognomonidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Waagenoperna TOKUYAMA, 1959, p. 151
    Type Species:  
Edentula lateplanata WAAGEN, 1907, p. 97, OD


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Fig. C52, 1. *W. lateplanata (Waagen), U.Trias., Japan, la,b, LV ext. and ligamental area, X0.85 (950).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-Asia(Japan)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Perm.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Wuchiapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
259.55
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Trias.
    Ending International Stage:  
Rhaetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
201.36


Description

Mytiliform, subequivalve, compressed, oblique, with terminal or subterminal beaks, obsolescent anterior auricle, posterior wing undifferentiated, anterior teeth but no posterior teeth present in young shell, all teeth later obsolete




References

\& Tokuyama, Akira, 1959, Daonella in Japan: Univ. Tokyo, Jour. Fac. Sci., sec. 2, v. 12, pt. 1, p. 1-30.


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