Bonaduce, G.; Ruggieri, G. & Russo, A. (1987). The ostracode genus Mutilus and some so-called Mutilus from the Mediterranean Miocene-Pleistocene. Bollettino della Societá Paleontologica Italiana. 26(3):251-268.

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Bonaduce, G.; Ruggieri, G. & Russo, A.

1987

26(3):251-268

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The genus Mutilus is represented in the Mediterranean Pliocene-Early Pleistocene by 5 species belonging to 2 subgenus: MutiIus (Mutilus) and Mutilus (Obtusomutilus). The 3 species belonging to the subgenus Mutilus (Mutilus) can be arranged in a phyletic series: elegantulus, laticancellatus, evolutus, the ancestral form of which must be searched in the Atlantic Miocene. All Miocene Mediterranean species previously described as Mutilus don't belong in fact to this genus. Some of these species are here assigned to 2 new genera: Flabellimutilus n. gen. (Middle-Upper Miocene), type-species Mutilus (M.) keiji Ruggieri, represented by 2 species, one of which, F. flabellum, is described as new; and Arutella, n. gen., type-species Mutilus cimbaeformis saheliensis Aruta, occurring exclusively in the Upper Miocene. The systematic position of this last genus appears still questionable.

Mediterranean

Ostracoda

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