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Publication Goldfuss (1837): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Goldfuss, G.A. 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae, tam ea quae in Museo Universitatis Regiae Borussiae Friedericiae Wilhelmae Rhenanae servantur quam alia quaecumque in Museis Hoeninghusiano, Münsterniano alliisque extant, iconibus et descriptionibus illustrata 2: 141-224, pl. 1220146.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Enocephalus Münster, 1831
Münster, 1831. Zeitung f. Geogn.: 92.
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 171.

Lyrodon Goldfuss, 1837
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 196.

Attributed Nominal Species

Unio carbonarius Goldfuss, 1837
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 145, pl. 131, fig. 19.
(homonym of Unio carbonarius Lea, 1838)

Unio flabellatus Goldfuss, 1837
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: 182, pl. 132, fig. 4a-b.

Unio striatus Goldfuss, 1837
Goldfuss, 1837. Petrefacta Germaniae 2: ??.

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