Bivalvia - Arcida - Glyptarcidae
Full reference: H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52
Parent taxon: Glyptarcidae according to Y. Wang et al. 2025
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter 1971, Cope 1996, Fang 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Camnantia, Erhaiconcha, Hemiprionodonta, Trigonoglyptarca, Zaplaella
Subtaxa: Glyptarca dalecarlica Glyptarca primaeva Glyptarca serrata Glyptarca sinensis Glyptarca symmetrica
Type: Glyptarca primaeva
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Dobrotivian of France (1 collection), Portugal (8), Spain (3)
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (3)
• Ordovician of China (14), Ireland (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 37 collections including 42 occurrences
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