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Miodontiscus prolongatus (elongate carditid)
Taxonomy
Miodon prolongatus was named by Carpenter (1864). It is extant.
It was recombined as Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongata by Oldroyd (1925); it was recombined as Cardita (Miodontiscus) prolongatus by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongatus by Itoigawa (1958); it was recombined as Miodontiscus prolongatus by Palmer (1958), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Coan (1977), Moore (1992), Coan et al. (2000), Hendy (2021).
It was recombined as Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongata by Oldroyd (1925); it was recombined as Cardita (Miodontiscus) prolongatus by Schenck (1945); it was recombined as Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongatus by Itoigawa (1958); it was recombined as Miodontiscus prolongatus by Palmer (1958), Hertlein and Grant (1972), Coan (1977), Moore (1992), Coan et al. (2000), Hendy (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1864 | Miodon prolongatus Carpenter |
| 1907 | Venericardia yatesi Arnold pp. 439-440 figs. pl. 58, figs. 2a, 3b |
| 1916 | Miodontiscus meridionalis Dall p. 24 |
| 1923 | Venericardia nakamurai Yokoyama p. 5 |
| 1925 | Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongata Oldroyd p. 5 |
| 1945 | Cardita (Miodontiscus) prolongatus Schenck |
| 1958 | Venericardia (Miodontiscus) prolongatus Itoigawa |
| 1958 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Palmer p. 83 |
| 1972 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Hertlein and Grant p. 233 |
| 1977 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Coan pp. 383-384 |
| 1992 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Moore p. 16 |
| 2000 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Coan et al. p. 305 |
| 2021 | Miodontiscus prolongatus Hendy |
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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.
Miodontiscus prolongatus Carpenter 1864 [elongate carditid]
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Invalid names: Miodontiscus meridionalis Dall 1916 [synonym], Venericardia nakamurai Yokoyama 1923 [synonym], Venericardia yatesi Arnold 1907 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Eames 1951, Sanchez Roig 1926 | |||||
Age range: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.63000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian | Russian Federation | Miodontiscus prolongatus (49978) | |
| Tortonian | USA (Alaska) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (37402) | |
| Zanclean - Gelasian | USA (California) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (214270 214272 214274) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (California) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (189541) | |
| Gelasian | USA (California) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (189557) | |
| Quaternary | USA (California) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (37936 37940) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (California) | Cardita prolongata (203113) Miodontiscus prolongatus (203114 223329) Venericardia prolongata (138723) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Miodontiscus prolongatus (160361) |