Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Alternative combinations: Arctica islandicus, Cyprina islandica, Venus islandicus
Belongs to Arctica according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Hendy 2007, Rosenberg 2005 and Wood 1850
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina lens, Cyprina ivensi
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 of Belgium (2), Germany (1), India (2)
• Oligocene of Denmark (3), Hungary (3)
Total: 71 collections each including a single occurrence
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