taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CB89600357FF8FFE9378FDFEEDF98B.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE SPECIES. — Caprotina zitteli Di Stefano, 1889 (Di Stefano 1889: 28, 30, pl. 8, figs 1 a, b, 2 a, b, c, 3), by subsequent designation of Kutassy (1934).	en	Rineau, Valentin, Masse, Jean-Pierre, Fernández-Mendiola, Pedro Angel, Pérez-Malo, Joanaitz, López-Horgue, Mikel A. (2025): The rudist genus Sellaea Di Stefano, 1889 (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) in the Albian carbonate platforms of Cantabria (N Spain): biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications. Geodiversitas 47 (22): 749-766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17920809, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a22.pdf
03CB89600357FF8FFE9378FDFEEDF98B.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS (from Rineau & Masse 2022). — Rudist with coiled left valve and uncoiled conical right valve. On the left valve, presence of a posterior cavity and an undivided anterior cavity. Posterior cavity filled with one or two septa in some species. The posterior myophore of the left valve is outwardly directed on a plate protruding into the posterior myophoral cavity on the right valve, facing the vertical posterior myophore of the right valve. On the right valve, canals can be present in a shell thickening located anteriorly from the anterior myophore.	en	Rineau, Valentin, Masse, Jean-Pierre, Fernández-Mendiola, Pedro Angel, Pérez-Malo, Joanaitz, López-Horgue, Mikel A. (2025): The rudist genus Sellaea Di Stefano, 1889 (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) in the Albian carbonate platforms of Cantabria (N Spain): biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications. Geodiversitas 47 (22): 749-766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17920809, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a22.pdf
03CB89600357FF8FFE917ABDFC73FCFA.taxon	description	(Fig. 8 A-F)	en	Rineau, Valentin, Masse, Jean-Pierre, Fernández-Mendiola, Pedro Angel, Pérez-Malo, Joanaitz, López-Horgue, Mikel A. (2025): The rudist genus Sellaea Di Stefano, 1889 (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) in the Albian carbonate platforms of Cantabria (N Spain): biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications. Geodiversitas 47 (22): 749-766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17920809, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a22.pdf
03CB89600357FF8FFE917ABDFC73FCFA.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sellaea is found in dense accumulation of both connected and isolated shells in Mazo Chico (Soba Valley) (Fig. 8 G). Only outcrop photographs of natural sections have been studied due to the hardness of the limestone beds that prevent sampling specimens. STUDY INTERVAL. — Mazo Chico limestones, Ramales Formation (upper middle Albian).	en	Rineau, Valentin, Masse, Jean-Pierre, Fernández-Mendiola, Pedro Angel, Pérez-Malo, Joanaitz, López-Horgue, Mikel A. (2025): The rudist genus Sellaea Di Stefano, 1889 (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) in the Albian carbonate platforms of Cantabria (N Spain): biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications. Geodiversitas 47 (22): 749-766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17920809, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a22.pdf
03CB89600357FF8FFE917ABDFC73FCFA.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION Shell inequivalve; left valve conical and coiled (less than one whorl), right valve conical and straight, triangular in longitudinal section (Fig. 8 A, B; mean height from umbo to commissure approximately 130 mm). Valves ovoid in transversal section (mean section 80 × 60 mm) with a ventral part straight to slightly depressed. Some right valves deformed in transversal section due to growing encrusted to other Sellaea individuals in bouquets (Fig. 8 C). Outer calcitic shell layer very thin (mean thickness 0.5 mm), generally not preserved. Inner aragonitic shell layer thick (mean thickness in ventral part 4 mm). Ligament invaginated in a reniform posterodorsal ligamentary cavity.	en	Rineau, Valentin, Masse, Jean-Pierre, Fernández-Mendiola, Pedro Angel, Pérez-Malo, Joanaitz, López-Horgue, Mikel A. (2025): The rudist genus Sellaea Di Stefano, 1889 (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) in the Albian carbonate platforms of Cantabria (N Spain): biostratigraphical and paleobiogeographical implications. Geodiversitas 47 (22): 749-766, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17920809, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a22.pdf
