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Megalocardia
Taxonomy
Megalocardia is a genus. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Dicerocardiidae by Cox et al. (1969); and to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Dicerocardiidae by Cox et al. (1969); and to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1969 | Megalocardia Cox et al. p. N660 |
| 2002 | Megalocardia Sepkoski |
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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.
G. †Megalocardia
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Albian to the top of the Late/Upper Albian or 110.10000 to 100.50000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Albian | Egypt | M. simplex (98326) | |
| Late/Upper Albian | Egypt | M. simplex (98327) |