MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Parallelodon Meek & Worthen, 1866 †

ERMS taxon details

Parallelodon Meek & Worthen, 1866 †

AphiaID

526455 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:526455)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Parallelodontidae Dall, 1898

Original name

Parallelodon Meek & Worthen, 1866 †

Synonymised names

Macrodon Buckman, 1845 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Macrodon...)

junior homonym of Macrodon Schinz, 1822 [Pisces]; Parallelodon and Beushausenia are replacement names

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Meek, F. B. & Worthen, A. H. (1866). Descriptions of Palaeozoic fossils from the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of Illinois, and other western states. <em>Proceedings of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.</em> 1: 11-23.
page(s): 17 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Parallelodon Meek & Worthen, 1866 †. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=526455 on 2026-01-22

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Parallelodon Meek & Worthen, 1866 †. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526455 on 2026-01-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-21 11:15:08Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2013-12-03 09:40:37Z

checked

Sartori, André F.

2015-01-30 20:03:50Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-10-16 06:28:56Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2024-05-14 07:11:15Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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original description Meek, F. B. & Worthen, A. H. (1866). Descriptions of Palaeozoic fossils from the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous rocks of Illinois, and other western states. <em>Proceedings of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.</em> 1: 11-23.
page(s): 17 [details]

original description (of Macrodon Buckman, 1845 †) Buckman, J. (1845). Descriptions of the new species of fossils named in the foregoing list. In: R.I. Murchison, Outline of the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Cheltenham. A new edition, augmented and revised by James Buckman, F.G.S., and H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S. John Murray, London / H. Davies, Cheltenham; pp. 93-106, pls. 1-13., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=GK9KmkjQFYYC
page(s): 98; note: authorship attributed to Lycett, but there is no indication that the description is actually from that author [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macrodon) (from synonym Macrodon Buckman, 1845 †)
To ITIS