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Acrosterigma

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Description

Acrosterigma is a genus of large saltwater clams or cockles, marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrosterigma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2286555	https://www.gbif.org/species/2286555
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17301	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17301

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Cardiidae : Acrosterigma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioidei	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Cardioidea
family	Cardiidae	Lamarck 1809
subfamily	Trachycardiinae	Stewart 1930
genus	Acrosterigma	Dall 1900

Scientific Name

Acrosterigma Dall, 1900

Name Published In

Dall, W.H. (1890-1903). Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Caloosahatchie River. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 3(1): 1-200 [1890]; 3(2): 201-474 [1892]; 3(3): 475-570, and plates for part 1: pp. 179-190, pl. 1-12; plates for part 2: pp. 449-458, pl. 13-22 [1895]; 3(4): [i]-viii, 571-948, pl. 23-35; [1898]; 3(5): 949-1218, pl. 36-47 [1900]; 3(6): [i]-xiv, 1219-1564, pl. 48-60 [1903].

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acrosterigma	genus	belongs to Trachycardiinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Acrosterigma	genus	belongs to Cardiidae	implied	Lamprell and Whitehead, 1992
Acrosterigma	genus	belongs to Trachycardiinae	stated with evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Acrosterigma	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrosterigma

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		31	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Acrosterigma amirante species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma attenuatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma biradiatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma burchardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma capricorne species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma cygnorum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acrosterigma dalli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma delectabile species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma dianthinum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma discus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma extremattenuatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma hobbsae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma hoerleorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma impolitum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma kerslakae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma linguatigris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Acrosterigma luteomarginata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma maculosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma magnum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma marielae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma mauritianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma oxygonum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma paulayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma pristipleura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma profundum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma punctolineatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vasticardium vertebratum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Acrosterigma selene species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma seurati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma simplex species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acrosterigma sorenseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma suduirauti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma suluanum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma terpoorteni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma transcendens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma triangulare species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma uniornatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrosterigma variegatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cardium linguatigris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1900	Acrosterigma Dall
1980	Acrosterigma Vokes p. 127
1992	Acrosterigma Lamprell and Whitehead p. 60
2000	Acrosterigma Coan et al. p. 411
2002	Acrosterigma Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

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

Lamprell K., Whitehead T. (1992) , Bivalves of Australia 1

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

CAAB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Trans. Wagner Inst., 3, pt. 5, - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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