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Ostomya mencheri K. van W. Palmer, 1945 †
1503050 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1503050)
unaccepted > superseded combination
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fossil only
Palmer, K. v. W. (1945). Fossil fresh-water Mollusca from the State of Monagas, Venezuela. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 31(118): 1-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10660362
page(s): 21, pl, 2. figs 1-7 [details] Available for editors
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Holotype PRI 20084
, Note A low hill along the east bank of the Quatatal...
Holotype PRI 20084 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality A low hill along the east bank of the Quatatal River, east of La Llanera and 17.1 kms. as the crow flies north of Caicara in the State of Monagas, Venezuela [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Ostomya mencheri K. van W. Palmer, 1945 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1503050 on 2025-03-13
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Palmer, K. v. W. (1945). Fossil fresh-water Mollusca from the State of Monagas, Venezuela. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 31(118): 1-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10660362
page(s): 21, pl, 2. figs 1-7 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Nuttall, C. P. (1990). A review of the Tertiary non-marine molluscan faunas of the Pebasian and other inland basins of north-western South America. <em>Bulletin of The British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series.</em> 45(2): 165-371., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45474563
page(s): 319-322, figs 440-442 [details]
new combination reference Wesselingh, F.P. (2006). Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 133: 19-290., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41346
page(s): 271 [details]
page(s): 21, pl, 2. figs 1-7 [details] Available for editors

source of synonymy Nuttall, C. P. (1990). A review of the Tertiary non-marine molluscan faunas of the Pebasian and other inland basins of north-western South America. <em>Bulletin of The British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series.</em> 45(2): 165-371., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45474563
page(s): 319-322, figs 440-442 [details]
new combination reference Wesselingh, F.P. (2006). Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 133: 19-290., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41346
page(s): 271 [details]




Holotype PRI 20084 [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Considered a junior synonym of the extant Guianadesma sinuosum Morrison, 1943 by Nuttall (1990). [details]Type locality A low hill along the east bank of the Quatatal River, east of La Llanera and 17.1 kms. as the crow flies north of Caicara in the State of Monagas, Venezuela [details]