Traits taxon details
Plethobasus biesopoides (Whitfield, 1907) †
1501929 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1501929)
accepted
Species
Unio biesopoides Whitfield, 1907 † · unaccepted > superseded combination
fossil only
(of Unio biesopoides Whitfield, 1907 †) Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Plethobasus biesopoides (Whitfield, 1907) †. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1501929 on 2025-05-14
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Plethobasus biesopoides (Whitfield, 1907) †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1501929 on 2025-05-14
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(of Unio biesopoides Whitfield, 1907 †) Whitfield, R.P. (1907). Remarks on and descriptions of new fossil Unionidae from the Laramie clays of Montana. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 23(26): 623-628., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/650
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
basis of record Russell, L.S. (1976). Pelecypods of the Hell Creek Formation (Uppermost Cretaceous) of Garfield County, Montana. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 13: 365-388. [details] Available for editors
additional source Scholz, H.; Hartman, J. H. (2007). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity. <em>Palaios.</em> 22(1): 24-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2005.p05-059r [details] Available for editors
status source Watters, G. T. (2001). The evolution of the Unionacea in North America, and its implications for the worldwide fauna. <em>In: Bauer, G.; Wächtler, K. (eds) Ecology and evolution of the freshwater mussels Unionoida. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.</em> pp. 281-307.
page(s): 288, 290, fig. 15.15 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 624, pl. 40, fig. 7, pl. 41, fig. 8 [details]
basis of record Russell, L.S. (1976). Pelecypods of the Hell Creek Formation (Uppermost Cretaceous) of Garfield County, Montana. <em>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.</em> 13: 365-388. [details] Available for editors

additional source Scholz, H.; Hartman, J. H. (2007). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of the Williston Basin, Montana, USA: Implications from the quantitative analysis of unionoid bivalve taxonomic diversity and morphologic disparity. <em>Palaios.</em> 22(1): 24-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2005.p05-059r [details] Available for editors

status source Watters, G. T. (2001). The evolution of the Unionacea in North America, and its implications for the worldwide fauna. <em>In: Bauer, G.; Wächtler, K. (eds) Ecology and evolution of the freshwater mussels Unionoida. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.</em> pp. 281-307.
page(s): 288, 290, fig. 15.15 [details] Available for editors
