Kalolophus, Devries, 2016
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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00228.2015 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5F87F5-FFF0-FF9B-FF2F-FCB7FEDEFA2C |
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Felipe |
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Kalolophus |
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Genus Kalolophus View in CoL nov.
Etymology: From Greek kalo, beautiful, and lophus, ridge; to echo the species name of the extant Kalolophus speciosus (Latin speciosus , beautiful).
Type species: Crassatellites (Scambula) chipolanus Dall, 1903 ; Chipola Formation, Florida, early Miocene .
Species included: Crassatella antillarum Reeve, 1842 ; Crassatellites (Scambula) chipolanus Dall, 1903 ; Crassatellites densus Dall, 1900 ; Crassatellites (Scambula) jamaicensis Dall, 1903 ; Eucrassatella mansfieldi MacNeil, 1936 ; Crassatellites mediamericanus Brown and Pilsbry, 1913 ; Crassatella speciosa Adams, 1854 .
Diagnosis.—Shell trapezoidal. Posterior variably produced, bluntly truncate. Weakly to moderately inflated ventral to beak, flattening towards posterior ridge. Umbo orthogyrate to slightly opisthogyrate. Escutcheon often wider than lunule. Resilifer extending nearly or entirely to ventral margin of hinge plate. Left anterior cardinal tooth not separated from beak by lunule. Inner ventral margin not crenulate.
Stratigraphic and geographic range.— Lower Miocene to Recent, Florida, Caribbean, and western North and South America .
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