Arca kingiana de Verneuil

Description

Arca kingiana de Verneuil in Murchison et al., 1845

Original source

Murchison et al. (1845): 313, pl. 19 fig. 11; originally as “ Kingiana ”.

Type stratum and age

“Calcaires d’Iltchegulova. […] Ces calcaires sont subordonnés à la grande masse des grès et des conglomérats du système permien, et en forment ordinairement la base”; Ilchegulova, basal limestone, Kungurian, Permian (Friedel et al. 2025).

Type locality

“Calcaires d’Iltchegulova, dans la vallée de la Dioma, gouvernement d’Orenbourg”; Dyoma [Dema] river valley, Il’chegulovo [Il’chigulovo], Bashkortostan Republic, Russia.

Type material

De Verneuil probably erected the species on a single LV, whereabouts unknown.

Remarks

Placed in the genus Macrodon by several authors (Chernyshev 1885; Amalitsky 1886; Netschajew 1894) and later in Parallelodon by Likharev (1925; as “ P. kingi ”), Maslennikov (1935; as “ P. kingi ”) and Friedel et al. (2025). See Friedel et al. (2025) for further info.

Authors

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20750759

Publication Date: 2026-06-04

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