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Bositra de Gregorio, 1886 †
1647445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1647445)
accepted
Genus
Posidonia ornati F. A. Quenstedt, 1851 † accepted as Bositra ornati (F. A. Quenstedt, 1851) † accepted as Bositra buchii (F. A. Roemer, 1836) † (type by subsequent designation)
Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 † · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Bositra buchii (F. A. Roemer, 1836) †
- Species Bositra favretensis T. R. Waller, 2005 †
- Species Bositra ornati (F. A. Quenstedt, 1851) † accepted as Bositra buchii (F. A. Roemer, 1836) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 †) De Gregorio, A. (1886). Monographie des fossiles de Valpore (Mont Grappa) du sous-horizon Grappin De Greg. <em>Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie.</em> 2: 1-20 pp, pls. 1-6.
page(s): 11 [details]
page(s): 11 [details]
Note Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was...
Type species Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was the type species by OD, but de Gregorio included three nominal species in Bositra and did not designate a type species. However Cox (1964) himself had designated the type species earlier. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Bositra de Gregorio, 1886 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1647445 on 2026-10-10
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(of Posidonomya (Bositra) de Gregorio, 1886 †) De Gregorio, A. (1886). Monographie des fossiles de Valpore (Mont Grappa) du sous-horizon Grappin De Greg. <em>Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie.</em> 2: 1-20 pp, pls. 1-6.
page(s): 11 [details]
basis of record Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 19-20 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Conti, M. A. & Monari, S. (1992). Thin-shelled bivalves from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico and Calcari a Posidonia formations of the Umbrian-Marchean Apennine (Central Italy). <em>Paleopelagos.</em> 2: 193-213.
page(s): 196 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp.
page(s): 343 [details]
subsequent type designation Cox, L. R. (1964). Notes concerning the taxonomy and nomenclature of fossil Bivalvia (mainly Mesozoic). <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 36(1): 39-48, 1 pl., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064935
page(s): 47 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 11 [details]
basis of record Waller, T. R.; Stanley, G. D. Jr. (2005). Middle Triassic Pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: Systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 79(S61: Paleontological Society Memoir 61): 1-58., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)79[1:MTPBMF]2.0.CO;2
page(s): 19-20 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Conti, M. A. & Monari, S. (1992). Thin-shelled bivalves from the Jurassic Rosso Ammonitico and Calcari a Posidonia formations of the Umbrian-Marchean Apennine (Central Italy). <em>Paleopelagos.</em> 2: 193-213.
page(s): 196 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Cox, L. R. et al. (1969). Part N: Mollusca 6, Bivalvia. In: Moore, R.C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 2 vol., 951 pp.
page(s): 343 [details]
subsequent type designation Cox, L. R. (1964). Notes concerning the taxonomy and nomenclature of fossil Bivalvia (mainly Mesozoic). <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 36(1): 39-48, 1 pl., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064935
page(s): 47 [details] Available for editors
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Type species Cox (1969) stated that Posidonia ornati was the type species by OD, but de Gregorio included three nominal species in Bositra and did not designate a type species. However Cox (1964) himself had designated the type species earlier. [details]
