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Taxonomy
Cardium puelchum was named by Sowerby (1846) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Recent; Argentina, Chile.]. It is not a trace fossil.
It was recombined as Loxocardium puelchum by Chiesa et al. (1995) and Chiesa and Camacho (2001); it was recombined as Trachycardium puelchum by Frassinetti and Covacevich (1999), Fasssinetti and Covacevich (1999) and Frassinetti (2001).
It was recombined as Loxocardium puelchum by Chiesa et al. (1995) and Chiesa and Camacho (2001); it was recombined as Trachycardium puelchum by Frassinetti and Covacevich (1999), Fasssinetti and Covacevich (1999) and Frassinetti (2001).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1846 | Cardium puelchum Sowerby p. 251 figs. pl. 2, fig. 15 |
| 1902 | Cardium puelchum Ortmann |
| 1907 | Cardium puelchum Ihering p. 292 |
| 1984 | Cardium puelchum Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska p. 102 |
| 1995 | Loxocardium puelchum Chiesa et al. p. 44 |
| 1999 | Trachycardium puelchum Fasssinetti and Covacevich p. 28 |
| 1999 | Trachycardium puelchum Frassinetti and Covacevich p. 28 |
| 2001 | Loxocardium puelchum Chiesa and Camacho p. 309 |
| 2001 | Trachycardium puelchum Frassinetti p. 77 |
| 2004 | Cardium puelchum del Rio p. 1119 |
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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.
†Trachycardium puelchum Sowerby 1846
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926, Todd 2001 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Pliocene or 33.90000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Oligocene | Argentina | Loxocardium puelchum (71600) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Chile | Trachycardium puelchum (78426 78427 78429 79035 79036) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Argentina | Cardium puelchum (71427 71429 71539 71542 185967) | |
| Burdigalian | Argentina | Loxocardium puelchum (65179 65182 65183 65184 65188) | |
| Middle Miocene | Argentina | Cardium puelchum (71425) | |
| Pliocene | Antarctica | Cardium puelchum (41576) |