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Trinacria cor

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Taxonomy
Trinacria cor was named by Popenoe (1937). Its type specimen is CIT (IP) 3418 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CIT loc. 974, Aliso-Santiago Creek Divide, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Williams Formation of California.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Trinacria cor Popenoe p. 380 figs. Plate 45, figures 1-3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
RankNameAuthor
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
ArcioniGray 1854
orderArcida(Stoliczka 1871)
superfamilyArcoidea(Lamarck 1809)
familyArcidaeLamarck 1809
subfamilyNoetiinaeStewart 1930
tribeTrinacriini(MacNeil 1937)
genusTrinacriaMayer 1868
speciescor

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.

Trinacria cor Popenoe 1937
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. P. Popenoe 1937Shell large and massive for the genus, high, short, angular; beaks small, sharply incurved, opisthogyrous; dorsal anterior margin concave directly in front of the beaks, merging thence into the tumid anterior margin; ventral margin nearly straight; posterior margin abruptly truncate immediately back of the beaks, separated from the lateral portions of the shell by an abrupt umbonal angulation; lateral and ventral surfaces of the shell meeting at nearly a right angle; posterior shell surface back of the angulation nearly flat; sculpture of fine growth lines with occasional deeper incised concentric grooves marking resting stages of growth; very fine rather widely spaced radial lines appear on well-preserved specimens; area short, amphidetic, shallow, directly beneath the beaks; dentition of about five minute chevron-shaped teeth on each side of the beak; muscle scars and pallial line unknown.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Adult height: 10 to < 100f
Thickness: intermediatef
Folds: minorf
Ribbing: majorf
Spines: nonef
Internal reinforcement: nonef
Ontogeny: accretionf
Environment: lagoonal, coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanic, brackish, freshwaterf
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Attached: yesf
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: suspension feederf
Vision: limitedf
Created: 2008-11-18 16:46:55
Modified: 2010-02-18 01:07:43
Source: f = family
Reference: Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008

Age range: base of the Turonian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 93.90000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (23 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (California) Trinacria cor (215284)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (California) Trinacria cor (220936)
Early/Lower Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (California) Trinacria cor (220366)
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (California) Trinacria cor (1519 1548 type locality: 72057 86793 86794 221105)
Middle Campanian83.6 - 72.2USA (California) Trinacria cor (144763 144764 185178 219079 220910 220911 220912 220913 220916 220919 221107)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.6 - 66.0USA (California) Trinacria cor (1533)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (California) Trinacria cor (1545)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (California) Trinacria cor (1354)