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Glyptarca ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4593748	https://www.gbif.org/species/4593748
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17134	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17134

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Parallelodontidae : Glyptarca

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Arcida : Parallelodontidae : Glyptarca

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	Pteriomorphia
-	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Arcioni	Gray 1854
order	Arcida
superfamily	Arcoidea
family	Parallelodontidae	Dall 1898
subfamily	Parallelodontinae	Dall 1898
genus	Glyptarca	Hicks 1873

Scientific Name

Glyptarca Hicks, 1873

Name Published In

Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 29 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Glyptarca	genus	belongs to Modiomorphidae	stated with evidence	Carter, 1971
Glyptarca	genus	belongs to Parallelodontinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Glyptarca	genus	belongs to Modiomorphoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Glyptarca	genus	belongs to Glyptarcidae	stated without evidence	Fang, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

479 - 472 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

Motility

facultatively mobile, attached (based on Parallelodontidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Parallelodontidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Arcida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. Hicks. 1873. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29(1):39-52

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Glyptarca dalecarlica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Glyptarca primaeva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	479 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1873	Glyptarca Hicks
1971	Glyptarca Carter p. 258
1980	Glyptarca Vokes p. 15
2002	Glyptarca Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Glyptarca Fang
2010	Glyptarca Bouchet et al.

References

Hicks H. On the Tremadoc rocks in the neighbourhood of St. David's, South Wales and their fossil contents, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 29 1, 39-52

Carter R. M. (1971) Revision of Arenig Bivalvia from Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire, Palaeontology 14 2, 250-261

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

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

Fang Z.-J. (2006) An introduction to Ordovician bivalves of southern China, with a discussion of the early evolution of the Bivalvia, Geological Journal 41, 303-328

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

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Quart. J. Geol. Soc., 29 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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