†family Glyptarcidae Cope 1996 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Glyptarcidae

Full reference: J. C. W. Cope. 1996. Early Ordovician (Arenig) bivalves from the Llangynog Inlier, South Wales. Palaeontology 39(4):979-1026

Parent taxon: Glyptarcoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cope 1996, Fang 2006, Nevesskaja 2009 and Wang et al. 2025

Sister taxon: Pucamyidae

Subtaxa: Camnantia Erhaiconcha Glyptarca Hemiprionodonta Trigonoglyptarca Zaplaella

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Type: Glyptarca

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Dobrotivian of France (1 collection), Morocco (2), Portugal (8), Spain (5)

• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (3)

• Arenig of Bolivia (1)

• Ordovician of Argentina (2), China (16), Ireland (1), Spain (9), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 51 collections including 61 occurrences

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