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Coanicardita ventricosa

Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Taxonomy
Cardita ventricosa was named by Gould (1850) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Recent; Alaska-Baja California.]. It is extant. Its type specimen is USNM 3373, a shell.

It was recombined as Venericardia ventricosa by Ashley (1895), Arnold (1903) and Oldroyd (1924); it was recombined as Cyclocardia ventricosa by Yonge (1969), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Coan (1977), Roth (1979), Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012); it was recombined as Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) ventricosa by Moore (1992), Coan et al. (2000); it was recombined as Coanicardita ventricosa by Pérez and Giachetti (2020), Hendy (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Cardita ventricosa Gould p. 276
1852Cardita ventricosa Gould p. 417
1895Venericardia ventricosa Ashley p. 344
1903Venericardia ventricosa Arnold pp. 128 - 129
1924Venericardia ventricosa Oldroyd p. 36
1931Cardita ventricosa Grant and Gale p. 272
1964Cardita ventricosa Faustman p. 118
1969Cyclocardia ventricosa Yonge p. 494
1972Cyclocardia ventricosa Hertlein and Grant p. 231
1977Cyclocardia ventricosa Coan p. 380
1979Cyclocardia ventricosa Roth p. 295
1992Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) ventricosa Moore p. 14
2000Cyclocardia (Cyclocardia) ventricosa Coan et al. p. 303
2012Cyclocardia ventricosa Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 381
2020Coanicardita ventricosa Pérez and Giachetti p. 15
2021Coanicardita ventricosa Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
RankNameAuthor
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
—CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
—CarditioniDall 1889
orderCarditida(Dall 1889)
superfamilyCrassatelloidea(Férussac 1822)
familyCarditidaeFleming 1820
genusCoanicardita
speciesventricosa(Gould 1850)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitesuperf
Environment: marinesuperf
Locomotion: facultatively mobilef
Life habit: infaunalf
Diet: suspension feederf
Vision: blindsuperf
Created: 2009-08-17 20:23:42
Modified: 2009-08-17 22:23:42
Source: f = family, superf = superfamily
References: Eames 1951, Sanchez Roig 1926

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (41 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pliocene5.333 - 2.58USA (California) Cardita ventricosa (96909 237390)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.58Mexico (Baja California) Cyclocardia ventricostata (154116)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.58USA (California) Cardita ventricosa (200403) Cyclocardia ventricosa (238460 238607)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.774USA (California) Cyclocardia ventricosa (237590 237594) Venericardia ventricosa (217009)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (California) Cyclocardia ventricosa (237604)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Venericardia ventricosa (71142)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129USA (California) Cardita ventricosa (96894 202632 202634 202635 202636 202638 202639 202640 202642 202643 202644 202645 202646 202647 202648 203113) Venericardia ventricosa (138723 222663 222665 222666 222976 222978 222979 222992 222993 222995 222998)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Cardita ventricosa (160361) Cyclocardia ventricosa (96937) Venericardia ventricosa (222674)