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Astarte elliptica
Taxonomy
Crassina elliptica was named by Brown (1827) [DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene-Recent; Arctic.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Tridonta elliptica by Simonarson et al. (1998); it was recombined as Astarte elliptica by Coan et al. (2000) and Hendy (2020).
It was recombined as Tridonta elliptica by Simonarson et al. (1998); it was recombined as Astarte elliptica by Coan et al. (2000) and Hendy (2020).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. aitkeni, A. alta, A. antipodum, A. ayersi, A. boum, A. camertonensis, A. cantabrigiensis, A. contjeani, A. cotteausia, A. culebrensis, A. curvirostris, A. deltoidea, A. depressa, A. depressoides, A. didimtuensis, A. elegans, A. eugonia, A. fimbriata, A. griesbachi, A. hobleyi, A. kenti, A. laurentiana, A. lonjiensis, A. madseni, A. mandawaensis, A. martini, A. mitoleensis, A. nummus, A. obsoleta, A. packardi, A. pindiroensis, A. polymorpha, A. pretriangulata, A. pulfreyi, A. pumila, A. rotunds, A. scanensis, A. seanensis, A. sieversi, A. spissa, A. subminima, A. trigonula, A. venatorum, A. veneriformis, A. veneris, A. sima, A. paphia, A. pasiphae, A. subsenecta, A. veneriformis, A. isosceles, A. cotteausia, A. icaunensis
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1827 | Crassina elliptica Brown |
| 1850 | Crassina elliptica Wood p. 181 |
| 1903 | Astarte alaskensis Dall |
| 1998 | Tridonta elliptica Simonarson et al. |
| 2000 | Astarte elliptica Coan et al. p. 289 |
| 2020 | Astarte elliptica Hendy |
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Astarte elliptica Brown 1827
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Invalid names: Astarte alaskensis Dall 1903 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Reference: Sanchez Roig 1926 | |||||
Age range: base of the Quaternary to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (28 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greenland | Tridonta elliptica (75092 75099 75101) | |
| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Astarte elliptica (84833) | |
| Quaternary | Greenland (Svartenhuk) | Astarte elliptica (226637) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Ireland | Astarte elliptica (178118) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Japan | Astarte alaskensis (190675) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Greenland | Astarte elliptica (75197) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New York) | Astarte elliptica (61270) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Netherlands | Tridonta elliptica (98196 98197) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Nova Scotia) | Astarte elliptica (75074) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greenland | Astarte elliptica (75127 75131 75134 227027 227028 227030 227031 227034 227040) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Astarte elliptica (84832) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Sweden (Bohuslan) | Astarte elliptica (140009) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Maine) | Astarte elliptica (66338 66351 80028 80049) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Astarte elliptica (66500) |