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Taxonomy
Venus langdoni was named by Dall (1900) [DISTRIBUTION: Early Miocene; Florida.]. Its type specimen is USNM 114569, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Mercenaria langdoni by Hendy et al. (2008).
It was recombined as Mercenaria langdoni by Hendy et al. (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1900 | Venus langdoni Dall p. 1198 figs. pl. 42, figs. 2, 7, 12 |
| 1903 | Venus langdoni Dall p. 1308 |
| 1947 | Venus langdoni Gardner p. 174 |
| 2008 | Mercenaria langdoni Hendy et al. |
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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.
†Mercenaria langdoni Dall 1900
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Serravallian or 20.45000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | USA (Georgia) | Venus langdoni (42069 42109 42212) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Florida) | Mercenaria langdoni (68971) Venus langdoni (42367 42424 42443 42447) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Florida) | Mercenaria langdoni (68970) |