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Arcidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59188	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59188

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Arcidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Arcioni	Gray 1854
order	Arcida
superfamily	Arcoidea
family	Arcidae	Lamarck 1809

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Arcidae	family	belongs to Pelecypoda	stated with evidence	Stanton, 1895
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated with evidence	Glenn, 1904
Arcidae	family	belongs to Pelecypoda	stated without evidence	Clark and Arnold, 1923
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Arcidae	family	belongs to Lamellibranchiata	stated without evidence	Isberg, 1934
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated without evidence	Gardner, 1945
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated with evidence	Newell, 1965
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated without evidence	Dockery, 1982
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated with evidence	Gliozzi and Malatesta, 1983
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated without evidence	Squires, 1987
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoida	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcacea	stated without evidence	Maxwell, 1992
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	stated with evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	stated without evidence	Todd, 2001
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoida	stated without evidence	Spencer et al., 2004
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Arcidae	family	belongs to Arcoidea	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

654

Extant Size (PBDB)

157 (24%)

First Recorded Appearance

269 - 265 Ma
Permian

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwater (based on Arcidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached (based on Arcidae)

Vision

limited (based on Arcidae)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Arcidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Arcidae)

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: mostly EP, mostly SE, mostly BA, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite,intermediate,minor folds, major ribbing (based on Arcidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anadarinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		2,474	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Arcinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		414	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Litharcinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Noetiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		743	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Ambrogia ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Angulararca ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Arca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ark	940	269 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Asperarca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Barbatia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		814	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Bathyarca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		64	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Bentharca genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Coraliarca genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Fugleria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Karasuarca ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Kikaiarca genus	listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Quadrilatera genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	55.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1809	Arcidae Lamarck
1895	Arcidae Stanton p. 50
1904	Arcidae Glenn p. 385
1923	Arcidae Clark and Arnold p. 137
1931	Arcidae Olsson p. 38
1934	Arcidae Isberg
1945	Arcidae Gardner p. 51
1957	Arcidae Rivera p. 190
1958	Arcidae DuBar p. 153
1965	Arcidae Newell p. 17
1979	Barbatiidae Scarlato and Starobogatov
1980	Arcidae Vokes p. 11
1982	Arcidae Dockery p. 29
1983	Arcidae Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 88
1987	Arcidae Squires p. 55

Year	Name and Author
1987	Arcidae Ward and Blackwelder p. 129
1988	Arcidae Squires p. 17
1992	Arcidae Maxwell p. 60
1992	Arcidae Ward p. 53
1999	Arcidae Squires p. 23
2000	Arcidae Coan et al. p. 127
2001	Arcidae Todd
2004	Arcidae Spencer et al.
2006	Arcidae Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 228
2006	Arcidae El Qot p. 22
2006	Arcidae Rosenberg et al.
2009	Arcidae Nevesskaja
2010	Arcidae Bouchet et al.
2010	Arcidae Matsubara et al. p. 132
2011	Arcidae Carter et al. p. 7

References

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Stanton T. W. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133, 1-132 doi:10.3133/b133

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Clark B. L., Arnold R. (1923) Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14 5, 123-234

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Isberg O. (1934) Studien über Lamellibranchiaten des Leptaenakalkes in Dalarna, Håkan Ohlssons Buchdruckerei, 1-493

Gardner J. (1945) Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico, Geological Society of American Memoir 11

Rivera R. (1957) Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica, Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32, 165-219

DuBar J. R (1958) Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Late Neogene strata of the Caloosahatchee River area of southern Florida, Florida Geological Survey Bulletin 40, 1-267

Newell N. D. (1965) Classification of the Bivalvia, American Museum Novitates 2206, 1-25

Dockery D. T. (1982) Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123, 1-261

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

Maxwell P. A. (1992) Eocene Mollusca from the vicinity of McCulloch's Bridge, Waihao River, South Canterbury, New Zealand: Paleoecology and systematics, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 65, 1-280

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of bivalves in the Panama Paleontology Project collections, [http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/database/bivalves/systemat/bivaltax.htm#list]

Spencer H. G., Willan R. C., et al (2004) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html]

Bieler R., Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Bivalvia - a look at the branches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 223-235

El Qot G. M. (2006) Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt, Beringeria 36, 3-163

Rosenberg G., Ponder W., et al (2006) A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks doi:http://data.acnatsci.org/obis

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Matsubara T., Kurita H., et al (2010) Eocene Mollusca from the Tainohata Formation in Kobe City, southwest Japan, Paleontological Research 14 2, 119-144 doi:10.2517/1342-8144-14.2.119

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

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