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Taxonomy
Spisula packardi was named by Dickerson (1917). Its type specimen is CAS 395, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 181, Cowlitz River, 4mi E. of Vader, which is in an Eocene coastal sandstone/conglomerate in Washington.
It was recombined as Mactra packardi by Clark and Anderson (1938); it was recombined as Mactra (Spisula) packardi by Durham (1944); it was recombined as Pseudocardium packardi by Moore (2003).
It was recombined as Mactra packardi by Clark and Anderson (1938); it was recombined as Mactra (Spisula) packardi by Durham (1944); it was recombined as Pseudocardium packardi by Moore (2003).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Spisula packardi Dickerson pp. 169 - 170 figs. pl. 28, figs. 5a, 5b |
| 1938 | Mactra packardi Clark and Anderson p. 948 figs. Plate 2, figures 6 and 7 |
| 1938 | Spisula packardi Effinger p. 373 |
| 1944 | Mactra (Spisula) packardi Durham p. 151 |
| 2003 | Pseudocardium packardi Moore |
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†Pseudocardium packardi Dickerson 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available