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Taxonomy
Mercenaria druidi was named by Ward (1992). Its type specimen is USNM 325574, a shell, and it is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
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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 druidi Ward 1992
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Invalid names: Venus (Mercenaria) berryi Gardner 1943 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 7.24600 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Haiti | Venus berryi (60106) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Virginia) | Mercenaria druidi (59295 59296) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria druidi (59299) | |
| Messinian | USA (Virginia) | Mercenaria druidi (71536 71618 71619 71623 71626 71628) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria berryi (80033) |