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Chione veatchiana

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Taxonomy

Chione veatchiana was named by Maury (1912) [DISTRIBUTION: ?Oligocene or Early Miocene; Caribbean.]. Its type specimen is PRI (unknown number), a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. aglaurae, C. argentina, C. basteroti, C. berjadinensis, C. biali, C. burnsii, C. byorituensis, C. cardioides, C. cordeliae, C. craspedonta, C. cribaria, C. dijki, C. erosa, C. gardnerae, C. hendersoni, C. idiomorpha, C. imitabilis, C. interpurpurea, C. kroensis, C. latilirata, C. martini, C. morsitans, C. multilamella, C. pachytesta, C. pailasana, C. perbrevisformis, C. praecursor, C. procancellata, C. propinqua, C. returgida, C. subsrostrata, C. tateiwai, C. tjikoraiensis, C. undatella, C. woodwardsi, C. matulina, C. matutina, C. rhodia, C. araneosa, C. erosa, C. lacinosa, C. mamoensis, C. pailasana, C. procancellata, C. thalassopora, C. vaca, C. pullcaria, C. taftoni, C. basteroti, C. acuminata, C. ballista, C. burnsii, C. caroniana, C. crossata, C. cultellata, C. cymaina, C. ebergenyi, C. glyptocyma, C. grauensis, C. hendersoni, C. kelletti, C. latilirata, C. penthesileae, C. praepaphia, C. sanctidavidis, C. sellardsi, C. ulocyma, C. ulocyma, C. ulocyma, C. usiacruina, C. xesta, C. tacaguana, Venus ebergengyii, Venus mindanensis, Venus pygmaea, Venus spurca, Venus taiwanensis, Venus yabei

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1912	Chione veatchiana Maury p. 58 figs. pl. 9, figs. 17, 18

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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)
infraclass	Heteroconchia	(Gray 1854)
—	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
—	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
—	Veneroidei	(Gray 1854)
—	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Veneroidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Veneridae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Venerinae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Chione	von Mühlfield 1811
species	veatchiana

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.

†Chione veatchiana Maury 1912

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitef

Locomotion:

facultatively mobileg

Life habit:

infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-04 16:33:10

Modified:

2009-09-04 18:33:10

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 23.04000 to 3.60000 Ma

Collections (16 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Trinidad and Tobago	Chione veatchiana (80167)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Trinidad and Tobago	Chione veatchiana (60409 60410 60412 60413 60414 60415 60416 60417 60644 60646 60650 60653 60654 60655 60659)