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Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) pulchra

Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Taxonomy

Cardita pulchra was named by Deshayes (1858) [DISTRIBUTION: Cenozoic; Western Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Venericardia pulchra by Cossmann and Pissarro (1904); it was recombined as Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) pulchra by Le Renard (1993).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Cardita subnipponica, C. antiqua, C. belogolovensis, C. erimoensis, C. ezoensis, C. hamiltonensis, C. kickxi, C. kovatschensis, C. longini, C. orientalis, C. ottonis, C. pilvoensis, C. poronaiensis, C. praeruptensis, C. roundiformis, C. subnipponica, C. tokudai, C. wajampolkensis, C. yakatagensis, Venericardia vestitoides

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1858	Cardita pulchra Deshayes
1904	Venericardia pulchra Cossmann and Pissarro
1993	Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) pulchra Le Renard

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Carditioni	Dall 1889
order	Carditida	(Dall 1889)
superfamily	Crassatelloidea	(Férussac 1822)
family	Carditidae	Fleming 1820
genus	Cyclocardia	Conrad 1867
subgenus	Arcturellina	(Chavan 1951)
species	pulchra	(Deshayes 1858)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) pulchra Deshayes 1858

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitesuperf

Environment:

marinesuperf

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

semi-infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindsuperf

Created:

2009-07-05 09:36:22

Modified:

2009-09-09 09:22:15

Source: g = genus, superf = superfamily

References: Sanchez Roig 1926, Todd 2001

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Bartonian or 56.00000 to 37.71000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Saudi Arabia (Ash Sharqiyah)	Cardita pulchra (42459)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	France (Yvelines)	Cyclocardia pulchra (177971 177972)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	France (Oise)	Venericardia pulchra (3494)