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Publication Hall (1869): summary
publication summary

Complete Citation

Hall. 1869. Preliminary Notice of the Lamellibanchiate Shells of the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung Groups, with others from the Waverly Sandstones (2). 97 pp.

Attributed Nominal Genera

Modioconcha Hall, 1869
Hall, 1869. Prelim. Not. Lamell. Shells (2): 27.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Modiolopsis Hall, 1847)
Type species: Nyassa arguta Hall, 1869 (orig. desig.)

Modiomorpha Hall, 1869
Hall, 1869. Prelim. Not. Lamell. Shells (2): 72.

Nyassa Hall, 1869
Hall, 1869. Prelim. Not. Lamell. Shells (2): 28.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Modiolopsis Hall, 1847)
Type species: Nyassa arguta Hall, 1869 (orig. desig.)

Palanatina Hall, 1869
Hall, 1869. Prelim. Not. Lamell. Shells (2): 84.

Attributed Nominal Species

Nyassa arguta Hall, 1869
Hall, 1869. Prelim. Not. Lamell. Shells (2): 28.

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