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Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 3. Genus Oscillopha Malchus

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The taxonomy of representatives of the genus Oscillopha Malchus, 1990 from the Aptian, Albian, and Cenomanian of the southwestern spurs of the Gissar Ridge (southeastern Turkmenistan) is revised. Issues of taxonomy of Mesozoic Lopha-like oysters are discussed. The diagnoses and composition of the family Arctostreidae Vialov, 1983, subfamily Arctostreinae Vialov, 1983, and genus Oscillopha Malchus, 1990 are specified. The genus Oscillopha is represented by the species O. eos (Coquand, 1869) in the Aptian and Albian and O. dichotoma (Bayle, 1849) in the Cenomanian.

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Notes

  1. Later, the authorship of the generic name Lopha was assigned to Röding (Stenzel, 1971). In further works, Vialov also indicated the authorship of Röding (Vialov, 1983, 1984).

  2. The type genus of the subfamily Lophinae is Lopha Röding, 1798; while the type species of Lopha Röding, 1798 is the modern species Mytilus [=Lopha] cristagalli L., 1758 (Stenzel, 1971, p. N1157).

  3. Stenzel pointed out that Actinostreon was common in the Jurassic and Cretaceous (Stenzel, 1971, p. N1158).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to T.N. Bogdanova for providing the collection of oysters and for useful advice and assistance in selecting the literature, as well as to A.V. Guzhov and S.V. Popov for reviewing the manuscript.

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The study was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (project no. FWZZ-2022-0004) and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (project no. 42150610484). The findings on the taxonomy of Lopha-like oysters are a contribution to the UNESCO-IUGS IGCP 679 project.

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Metelkin, E.K., Kosenko, I.N. Aptian–Albian Oysters from the Southwestern Spurs of the Gissar Ridge. Part 3. Genus Oscillopha Malchus. Paleontol. J. 57, 491–499 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030123050052

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