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Taxonomy
Species lacking formal opinion data
Arca bellonii, Arca bravoensis, Arca cancellata, Arca carinata, Arca fracta, Arca fruthi, Arca gabrielis, Arca gurgitis, Arca halmyrus, Arca limatella, Arca macnairyensis, Arca mikkula, Arca montensis, Arca montensis, Arca nana, Arca pakistanica, Arca pergracilis, Arca securiculata, Arca stillicidum, Arca tailleburgensis, Arca triasina, Arca veatchi, Arca waltonia
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1885 | Arca (Byssoarca) Meyer p. 467 |
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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.
Subg. Arca (Byssoarca) Swainson 1833
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Byssoarca zebra Swainson 1833
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†Arca (Arca) occidentalis miocica Vokes 1938
Invalid names: Arca occidentalis Philippi 1847 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Aberhan et al. 2004 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.44000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Collections (41 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Miocene | Brazil (Para) | Arca zebra (65162) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Florida) | Arca occidentalis (42482 42605) | |
| Langhian - Tortonian | Venezuela (Falcon) | Arca occidentalis (135498) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Florida) | Arca occidentalis (43036 43046 94810 111204) | |
| Tortonian | Venezuela | Arca occidentalis (131304) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Dominican Republic | Arca occidentalis (58867) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Haiti | Arca occidentalis (60106) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Arca occidentalis (81976) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Colombia (Bolívar) | Arca occidentalis (88316) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Dominican Republic | Arca zebra (74967 74971) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Dominican Republic | Arca occidentalis (58821) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Trinidad and Tobago | Arca zebra (60412 60413 60414 60415 60416 60417) | |
| Zanclean | Dominican Republic | Arca zebra (74964 74965 74968 74970) | |
| Pliocene | Colombia | Arca occidentalis (93723) | |
| Pliocene | Costa Rica | Arca occidentalis (134667) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Jamaica | Arca occidentalis (58522) Arca zebra (69089) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | USA (Florida) | Arca occidentalis (59484) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Colombia (La Guajira) | Arca occidentalis (136994 157967) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Panama | Arca occidentalis (80304) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Venezuela (Sucre) | Arca zebra (41556) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Arca occidentalis (41209 79331) | |
| Pleistocene | Cuba | Arca occidentalis (66775) | |
| Pleistocene | Dominican Republic | Arca occidentalis (75422) | |
| Pleistocene | Venezuela | Arca zebra (131268) | |
| Holocene | Venezuela | Arca zebra (131223) |