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Taxonomy
Cyprina tridacnoides was named by Lamarck (1818) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Pliocene; Virginia-North Carolina.]. It is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Venus tridacnoides by Conrad (1838) and Dall (1903); it was recombined as Mercenaria tridacnoides by Conrad (1863), Ward (1993); it was recombined as Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis tridacnoides by Gardner (1943); it was recombined as Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides by Hendy et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Venus tridacnoides by Conrad (1838) and Dall (1903); it was recombined as Mercenaria tridacnoides by Conrad (1863), Ward (1993); it was recombined as Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis tridacnoides by Gardner (1943); it was recombined as Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides by Hendy et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1818 | Cyprina tridacnoides Lamarck p. 558 |
| 1838 | Venus tridacnoides Conrad p. 10 |
| 1863 | Mercenaria tridacnoides Conrad p. 574 |
| 1903 | Venus tridacnoides Dall p. 1310 |
| 1943 | Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis tridacnoides Gardner pp. 132-133 |
| 1993 | Mercenaria tridacnoides Ward |
| 2008 | Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides Hendy et al. |
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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.
†Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides Lamarck 1818
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pliocene or 3.60000 to 2.58000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (South Carolina) | Mercenaria tridacnoides (60942) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (Virginia) | Mercenaria tridacnoides (60660 60667 78271 78272) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (Florida) | Mercenaria tridacnoides (79960) |