WoRMS taxon details

Sphaerium aequale L. S. Russell, 1926 †

1501611  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1501611)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Russell, L.S. (1926). Mollusca of the Paskapoo Formation in Alberta. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, third series. Section IV - Geological Sciences.</em> 20: 207-220.
page(s): 214, pl. 3, figs 10, 11 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  UAEAS Pa. 79  
Holotype UAEAS Pa. 79 [details]
Note "West slope of Wallace Mountain, 600 feet...  
Type locality "West slope of Wallace Mountain, 600 feet below the summit, and is near the headwaters of the east branch of Bruce river", Alberta, Canada; Paskapoo Fm., Paleocene [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphaerium aequale L. S. Russell, 1926 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1501611 on 2025-05-16
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2021-04-07 10:59:05Z
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2022-08-29 07:11:35Z
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Nomenclature

original description Russell, L.S. (1926). Mollusca of the Paskapoo Formation in Alberta. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, third series. Section IV - Geological Sciences.</em> 20: 207-220.
page(s): 214, pl. 3, figs 10, 11 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Henderson, J. (1935). Fossil non-marine Mollusca of North America. <em>Geological Society of America Special Papers.</em> 3: 1-313.
page(s): 114 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Tozer, E.T. (1956). Uppermost Cretaceous and Paleocene nonmarine molluscan faunas of western Alberta. <em>Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir.</em> 280: 1-125., available online at https://doi.org/10.4095/101507
page(s): 42-43, pl. 2, fig. 5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype UAEAS Pa. 79 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "West slope of Wallace Mountain, 600 feet below the summit, and is near the headwaters of the east branch of Bruce river", Alberta, Canada; Paskapoo Fm., Paleocene [details]
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