Biplica mathewsonii (Gabb, 1864)

Cunha, Carlo M. & Salvador, Rodrigo B., 2018, Type specimens of fossil " Architectibranchia " and Cephalaspidea (Mollusca, Heterobranchia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (2), pp. 505-527 : 505

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.27401

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:09EC3F78-C68C-4F9C-A76D-008DDAE13B3E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E520CDA-735A-0079-F4D8-B6D5EFF6CAD7

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scientific name

Biplica mathewsonii (Gabb, 1864)
status

 

Biplica mathewsonii (Gabb, 1864) Figure 3 U–V

Cinulia mathewsonii Gabb, 1864: 111, 225, pl. 19, fig. 65.

Type locality.

Bull’s Head Point, Martinez, California, USA; stratum: uncertain [likely Chico Formation]; age: Cretaceous.

Type material.

Lectotype, ANSP IP4262 (designation by Stewart 1926: 437, pl. 24, fig. 11).

Remarks.

Popenoe (1957: 434) points out that Gabb’s material from Bull’s Head Point could represent a non-Cretaceous locality/horizon or be Paleogene material mixed with Gabb’s Cretaceous specimens.

Current taxonomic status.

Biplica mathewsonii (Gabb, 1864) ( Popenoe 1957).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Heterostropha

Family

Ringiculidae

Genus

Biplica