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Opisthoptera F. B. Meek, 1872 †
1861300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1861300)
accepted
Genus
Ambonychia (Megaptera) casei F. B. Meek & Worthen, 1866 † accepted as Opisthoptera casei (F. B. Meek & Worthen, 1866) † (type by typification of replaced name)
Ambonychia (Megaptera) F. B. Meek & Worthen, 1866 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Megaptera Gray,...)
junior homonym of Megaptera Gray, 1846 [Mammalia]; Opisthoptera is a replacement name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Meek, F. B. (1872). Descriptions of new western Palaeozoic fossils, mainly from the Cincinnati Group of the Lower Silurian Series of Ohio. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 23: 308-337 ["1871"]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5512153
page(s): 320 [details]
page(s): 320 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Opisthoptera Meek, 1872 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1861300 on 2026-06-13
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original description
Meek, F. B. (1872). Descriptions of new western Palaeozoic fossils, mainly from the Cincinnati Group of the Lower Silurian Series of Ohio. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 23: 308-337 ["1871"]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5512153
page(s): 320 [details]
original description (of Ambonychia (Megaptera) F. B. Meek & Worthen, 1866 †) Meek, F. B. & Worthen, A. H. (1866). Descriptions of Palaeozoic fossils from the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of Illinois, and other western states. <em>Proceedings of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.</em> 1: 11-23.
page(s): 22 [details]
basis of record Kříž, J. (2005). Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) bivalves from Spain. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 48(3): 455-477., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00474.x
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page(s): 320 [details]
original description (of Ambonychia (Megaptera) F. B. Meek & Worthen, 1866 †) Meek, F. B. & Worthen, A. H. (1866). Descriptions of Palaeozoic fossils from the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of Illinois, and other western states. <em>Proceedings of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.</em> 1: 11-23.
page(s): 22 [details]
basis of record Kříž, J. (2005). Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) bivalves from Spain. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 48(3): 455-477., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00474.x
page(s): 465 [details] Available for editors
[request]
