PBDB Taxon

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Spisula craspedota

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae

Taxonomy

Spisula (Hemimactra) craspedota was named by Gardner (1947) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Miocene; Florida.]. Its type specimen is USNM 352006, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 5079 - Shell Bluff [Shoal River Fm], which is in a Serravallian marine marl/sandstone in the Shoal River Formation of Florida.

It was recombined as Spisula craspedota by Hendy et al. (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Mactra asperaeformis, S. bisculpurtata, S. catiliformis, S. cutirostrata, S. eugenense, S. trangulata, S. aequilaterala, S. longa, S. densata, S. panzana, S. sachalinensis, S. hauitaca

Year	Name and author
1947	Spisula (Hemimactra) craspedota Gardner p. 221 figs. pl. XXXIII, figs. 10-12
2008	Spisula craspedota Hendy et al.

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	USA (Florida)	Spisula craspedota (42684 42685 68971)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	USA (Florida)	Spisula craspedota (42692 42875 type locality: 42886 42888 42889 42890 42891 42892 43024 43032 43036 43046 94810 111204 136943)