Published July 7, 2026 | Version v1

Dosinia peralta Vredenburg 1928

  • 1. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Palaeobiology, Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 2. State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, Frontiers Science Center for Deep-time Digital Earth, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China.
  • 3. Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, 45137 - 66731, Iran.

Description

Dosinia peralta Vredenburg, 1928

Fig. 7A–B

Dosinia peralta Vredenburg, 1928: 449, pl. 29 figs 1–6.

Dosinia sp. – Newton, 1905: 299, pl. 16 figs. 8–10.

Dosinia (Dosinisca) peralta – Borkar & Kulkarni 2019: 10, pl. 1 figs t–z.

Material examined

IRAN – Sistan and Baluchestan • 1 shell; Dar Pahn Unit; GDZU-0338.

Remarks

This specimen agrees well with previous illustrations and description of D. peralta (Vredenburg 1928; Borkar & Kulkarni 2019), although with a height of 45 mm it is somewhat larger than the maximum height of 35 mm reported by Borkar & Kulkarni (2019). A very similar species is Dosinia boettgeri Martin, 1879 from the Late Miocene of Java (see Leloux & Wesselingh 2009: pl. 17 figs 6–8), from which D. peralta differs mainly by its more acute anterodorsal margin. Another similar species is Dosinia exasperata from Pleistocene strata in the Philippines (Shuto 1971), which has more irregular commarginal sculpture and the sculpture is scaly on the posterodorsal margin, unseen in D. peralta. Extant specimens of Dosinia exasperata are more roundish and have more steeply sloping antero- and posterodorsal margins.

Notes

Published as part of Kiel, Steffen, Hadi, Mehdi, Ataabadi, Majid Mirzaie & Xi, Dangpeng, 2026, New species and records of Late Miocene mollusks from southeastern Iran, pp. 1-22 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1074 on page 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1074.3300, http://zenodo.org/record/21456279

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
GDZU
Material sample ID
GDZU-0338
Scientific name authorship
Vredenburg
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Venerida
Family
Veneridae
Genus
Dosinia
Species
peralta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dosinia peralta Vredenburg, 1928 sec. Kiel, Hadi, Ataabadi & Xi, 2026

References

  • Vredenburg E. W. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of northwestern India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica 50: 351-506.
  • Newton R. B. 1905. An account of some marine fossils contained in limestone nodules found on the Mekran beach, off the Ormara Headland, Baluchistan. Geological Magazine 2: 293-303. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756800124999
  • Borkar V. D. & Kulkarni K. G. 2019. The oldest record of the bivalve Dosinisca Dall and its implications. Journal of Earth System Science 128: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-019-1125-6
  • Leloux J. & Wesselingh F. P. 2009. Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis. NNM Technical Bulletin 11: 1-765.
  • Shuto T. 1971. Neogene Bivalves from Panay Island, the Philippines. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D (Geology) 21: 1-73. https://doi.org/10.5109/1544087