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Taxonomy
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1843 | Venus capax Conrad p. 324 |
| 1992 | Mercenaria capax Ward p. 109 |
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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 capax Conrad 1843
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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: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 28.10000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria capax (71651 71652) | |
| Chattian | USA (North Carolina) | Mercenaria capax (71650) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | USA (Virginia) | Mercenaria capax (60658 71653) |