Tetrarca leptogrammica Hall, Jr. 1964

Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae

Alternative combination: Arca (Arca) leptogrammica

Full reference: C. A. Hall, Jr. 1964. Arca (Arca) leptogrammica, a New Late Tertiary Pelecypod From the San-Luis-Obispo Region, California. Journal of Paleontology 38(1):87-88

Belongs to Tetrarca according to G. Vermeij and K. Amano 2021

See also Hall 1964 and Moore 1983

Sister taxa: Tetrarca acuminata, Tetrarca boucardi, Tetrarca fernandezensis, Tetrarca sisquocensis, Tetrarca tetragona, Tetrarca washingtoniana

Type specimen: UCLA 34997, a shell. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 4180, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in the Santa Margarita Formation of California.

Distribution: found only at UCLA loc. 4180

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