Cyrenida
| Cyrenida Temporal range: Jurassic - Quaternary | |
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| Fossils of Cyrena sirena | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Family: | Cyrenidae |
| Genus: | Cyrenida Lamarck |
Cyrenida is an extinct genus of clams in the family Cyrenidae. This name is now accepted as a synonym of Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 [1]
Species
Species within this genus include: [2][3]
- † Cyrena abbreviata Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena cardioides Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena consobrina Cailland 1823
- † Cyrena difficilis Deshayes 1860
- † Cyrena distincta Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena dutemplei Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena gravesi Deshayes 1824
- † Cyrena incompta Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena lamberti Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena nobilis Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena saincenyensis Deshayes 1857
- † Cyrena sirena Brongniart
- † Cyrena veneriformis Deshayes 1857
Fossils within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Colombia, Peru, Panama and Tanzania from Jurassic to Quaternary (age range: 189.6 to 0.781 Ma).[2]
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Cyrena. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=525448 on 2015-08-26
- 1 2 Fossilworks
- ↑ D. ESU and O. GIROTTI The late Oligocene molluscan fauna from Otranto (Apulia, Southern Italy): an example of alternating freshwater, lagoonal and emerged environments
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