Arctica Schumacher 1817 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae

Synonym: Cyprina Lamarck 1818

Parent taxon: Arcticidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cserna 1956, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Agapella, Ambonicardia, Anisocardia, Anisocardioides, Antarctica, Antiquicyprina, Aquilonia, Coelocyprina, Dietrichia, Epicyprina, Etea, Fengjiachongia, Gythemon, Hartwellia, Isocyprina, Izumia, Lilingella, Loparia, Microcyprina, Mokattamia, Petalocardia, Plesiocyprina, Procyprina, Pronoella, Proveniella, Pseudotrapezium, Pygocardia, Rollierella, Roudairia, Schedotrapezium, Somarctica, Staffinella, Tenea, Tortarctica, Vectianella, Venericyprina, Veniella, Venilicardia, Yunshania, Agelasina, Amiodon

Subtaxa: Arctica africana Arctica calabra Arctica globosa Arctica islandica Arctica limpidiana Arctica murrayensis Arctica picteti Arctica planata Arctica provencialis Arctica subanthooensis Cyprina cancriniana Cyprina cordiformis Cyprina cuneata Cyprina denmanensis Cyprina escheri Cyprina iddingsi Cyprina ivensi Cyprina lens Cyprina occidentalis Cyprina praerustica Cyprina purae Cyprina scutellaria

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Greenland (1), Iceland (6), Ireland (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (6), the United Kingdom (7), United States (1: New York)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (8), Iceland (19), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (5)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: Alaska)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (2), Germany (1), India (3)

• Oligocene of Austria (3), Denmark (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (3), Ukraine (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (1), the United Kingdom (6)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (2), Algeria (1), Angola (1), Australia (1), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Egypt (18), France (5), Germany (2), Greenland (3), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Mexico (2), Nigeria (3), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Switzerland (14), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (18: Alaska, Arizona, California, Tennessee)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (4), France (1), Greenland (21), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: Alaska)

• Triassic of Germany (1), Italy (3), United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 256 collections including 277 occurrences

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