Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Synonym: Cyprina Lamarck 1818
Parent taxon: Arcticidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cserna 1956, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Agapella, Ambonicardia, Anisocardia, Anisocardioides, Antarctica, Antiquicyprina, Aquilonia, Coelocyprina, Dietrichia, Epicyprina, Etea, Fengjiachongia, Gythemon, Hartwellia, Isocyprina, Izumia, Lilingella, Loparia, Microcyprina, Mokattamia, Petalocardia, Plesiocyprina, Procyprina, Pronoella, Proveniella, Pseudotrapezium, Pygocardia, Rollierella, Roudairia, Schedotrapezium, Somarctica, Staffinella, Tenea, Tortarctica, Vectianella, Venericyprina, Veniella, Venilicardia, Yunshania, Agelasina, Amiodon
Subtaxa: Arctica africana Arctica calabra Arctica globosa Arctica islandica Arctica limpidiana Arctica mediale Arctica murrayensis Arctica picteti Arctica planata Arctica provencialis Arctica subanthooensis Cyprina cancriniana Cyprina cordiformis Cyprina cuneata Cyprina denmanensis Cyprina escheri Cyprina iddingsi Cyprina ivensi Cyprina lens Cyprina occidentalis Cyprina praerustica Cyprina purae Cyprina scutellaria
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Greenland (1), Iceland (6), Ireland (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (6), the United Kingdom (7), United States (1: New York)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (8), Iceland (19), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: Alaska)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (1), Germany (1), India (3)
• Oligocene of Austria (3), Denmark (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (3), Ukraine (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (1), the United Kingdom (6)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (1), Angola (1), Australia (1), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Egypt (18), France (5), Germany (2), Greenland (3), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Mexico (2), Nigeria (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (17), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Switzerland (14), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (20: Alaska, Arizona, California, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (4), France (1), Greenland (21), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Germany (1), Italy (3), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 258 collections including 279 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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