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Taxonomy
Venus rileyi was named by Conrad (1838) [DISTRIBUTION: Virginia-North Carolina; Early Pliocene-Late Pliocene.]. It is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Mercenaria rileyi by Conrad (1863); it was recombined as Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis rileyi by Gardner (1943); it was recombined as Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi by Hendy et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Mercenaria rileyi by Conrad (1863); it was recombined as Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis rileyi by Gardner (1943); it was recombined as Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi by Hendy et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Venus rileyi Conrad p. 9 figs. pl. 6, fig. 1 |
| 1863 | Mercenaria rileyi Conrad p. 574 |
| 1904 | Venus rileyi Glenn p. 304 |
| 1943 | Venus (Mercenaria) campechiensis rileyi Gardner pp. 130-131 |
| 2008 | Mercenaria campechiensis rileyi 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 rileyi Conrad 1838
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Langhian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 15.98000 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Langhian | USA (Maryland) | Venus rileyi (60379) | |
| Pliocene | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria rileyi (151326) | |
| Pliocene | USA (Virginia) | Venus rileyi (59293) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (Florida) | Mercenaria rileyi (79960 80037 80044) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria rileyi (59301) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Venus rileyi (92408) |