Cymatioa cooki (Willett, 1937)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Rediscovered alive (Valentich-Scott & Goddard, 2022)

Distribution

California, USA

Anatomy & Morphology

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Willett, G. (1937). An upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California. San Diego Society of Natural History, Transactions 8: 379-406 [pls 25, 26]. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.14904

Other references:

Valentich-Scott, Paul and Goddard, Jeffrey H. R. (2022). A fossil species found living off southern California, with notes on the genus Cymatioa (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea). ZooKeys 1128: 53-62. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1128.95139

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