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Pterotheca Salter, 1853 †
1769698 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1769698)
accepted
Genus
Aulacomerella von Huene, 1900 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Clioderma J. Hall, 1861 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Pterotheca angusta Raymond, 1921 †
- Species Pterotheca attenuata (J. Hall, 1861) †
- Species Pterotheca avirostris Salter, 1865 †
- Species Pterotheca consobrina Barrande, 1872 †
- Species Pterotheca expansa (Emmons, 1842) †
- Species Pterotheca gath Lamont, 1978 †
- Species Pterotheca harviei Foerste, 1924 †
- Species Pterotheca hispanica Ebbestad & Gutiérrez-Marco, 2017 †
- Species Pterotheca macroderma (Eichwald, 1856) †
- Species Pterotheca mullochensis Reed, 1909 †
- Species Pterotheca multidecorata Reed, 1909 †
- Species Pterotheca saffordi (Hall, 1861) †
- Species Pterotheca simplex Reed, 1909 †
- Species Pterotheca transversa (Portlock, 1843) †
- Species Pterotheca trimerelloides Clarkson, Harper & Peel, 1995 †
- Species Pterotheca undulata (Hall, 1861) †
- Species Pterotheca xiushanensis W.J. Li, X. Fang, J.Q. Song & Y.D. Zhang, 2025 †
- Species Pterotheca yongshunensis W.J. Li, X. Fang, J.Q. Song & Y.D. Zhang, 2025 †
- Species Pterotheca anatiniformis (J. Hall, 1847) † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca anticostiana Twenhofel, 1928 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca clochensis Foerste, 1924 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca drummockensis Reed, 1909 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca estona Teichert, 1928 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca girvanensis Reed, 1909 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca intermedia Shrock & Raasch, 1937 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca lata Teichert, 1930 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca maxima Teichert, 1928 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca pentagona Foerste, 1914 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca triangularis Bradley, 1930 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Pterotheca bohemica Barrande, 1867 † accepted as Cyclotheca bohemica (Barrande, 1867) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Salter, J. W. (1853). On a few genera of Irish Silurian fossils. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1852).</em> 59-61., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12922196
page(s): 61 [details]
page(s): 61 [details]
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original description
Salter, J. W. (1853). On a few genera of Irish Silurian fossils. <em>Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1852).</em> 59-61., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12922196
page(s): 61 [details]
original description (of Clioderma J. Hall, 1861 †) Hall, J. (1861). Upon some new and other species of fossils, from the rocks of the Hudson-river group of Ohio and the western states; with descriptions. <em>Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto.</em> 14: 89-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35839603
page(s): 96 [details]
original description (of Aulacomerella von Huene, 1900 †) von Huene F. (1900). Über Aulacomerella, ein neues Brachiopoden-geschlecht. <em>Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg [= Zapiski Imperatorskago Sankt-Petersburgskago Mineralogicheskago Obshchestva], ser. 2.</em> 38: 209-237.
page(s): 210, 215 [details]
basis of record Horný, R. J. (2002). Ordovician Tergomya and isostrophic Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Bohemia: Types and referred specimens in the collections of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. <em>Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B (Historia Naturalis).</em> 57 [2001]: 69-102.
page(s): 80 [details]
additional source Clarkson, E. N.; Harper, D. A.; Peel, J. S. (1995). Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the mollusc <i>Pterotheca</i> from the Ordovician and Silurian of Scotland. <em>Lethaia.</em> 28(2): 101-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1995.tb01600.x [details] Available for editors
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additional source Ebbestad, J. O. R.; Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2017). First occurrence of Pterotheca (Gastropoda) from the Silurian (Aeronian) of Spain. <em>Geobios.</em> 50(2): 97-104., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2017.02.003 [details]
page(s): 61 [details]
original description (of Clioderma J. Hall, 1861 †) Hall, J. (1861). Upon some new and other species of fossils, from the rocks of the Hudson-river group of Ohio and the western states; with descriptions. <em>Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto.</em> 14: 89-109., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35839603
page(s): 96 [details]
original description (of Aulacomerella von Huene, 1900 †) von Huene F. (1900). Über Aulacomerella, ein neues Brachiopoden-geschlecht. <em>Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg [= Zapiski Imperatorskago Sankt-Petersburgskago Mineralogicheskago Obshchestva], ser. 2.</em> 38: 209-237.
page(s): 210, 215 [details]
basis of record Horný, R. J. (2002). Ordovician Tergomya and isostrophic Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Bohemia: Types and referred specimens in the collections of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. <em>Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B (Historia Naturalis).</em> 57 [2001]: 69-102.
page(s): 80 [details]
additional source Clarkson, E. N.; Harper, D. A.; Peel, J. S. (1995). Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the mollusc <i>Pterotheca</i> from the Ordovician and Silurian of Scotland. <em>Lethaia.</em> 28(2): 101-114., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1995.tb01600.x [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ebbestad, J. O. R.; Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2017). First occurrence of Pterotheca (Gastropoda) from the Silurian (Aeronian) of Spain. <em>Geobios.</em> 50(2): 97-104., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2017.02.003 [details]
