MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 263, pl. 2, fig. 2 [details]
original description
(of Dentalium gayi R. A. Philippi, 1887 †) Philippi, R. A. (1887). <i>Die Tertiären und Quartären Versteinerungen Chiles / Los fósiles Terciarios i Cuatarios de Chile</i>. iv + 266 pp. Lepizig: Brockhaus [German language edition]. / Santiago: Gobierno de Chile, 256 pp [Spanish language edition]. 58 pls [identical in both editions]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14943546
page(s): 107 [German], 101 [Spanish], pl. 12, fig. 19 [details]
original description
(of Dentalium majus G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 263, pl. 2, fig. 3 [details]
basis of record
Coan, E. V. & Kabat, A. R. (2017). The malacological contributions of Rudolph Amandus Philippi (1808-1904). <em>Malacologia.</em> 60(1−2): 31−322.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 310, pl. 24, fig. 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Philippi, R. A. (1887). <i>Die Tertiären und Quartären Versteinerungen Chiles / Los fósiles Terciarios i Cuatarios de Chile</i>. iv + 266 pp. Lepizig: Brockhaus [German language edition]. / Santiago: Gobierno de Chile, 256 pp [Spanish language edition]. 58 pls [identical in both editions]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14943546
page(s): 106, pl. 12, fig. 10 [details]
Holotype NHMUK NHM-G26402, geounit Chile [details]