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Taxonomy
Mercenaria cuneata was named by Conrad (1869). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is James T. Thomas estate, which is in a Serravallian offshore shelf horizon in the Calvert Formation of Maryland.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1869 | Mercenaria cuneata Conrad |
1992 | Mercenaria cuneata Ward p. 108 |
2008 | Mercenaria cuneata Hendy et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 |
Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the Tortonian or 13.82000 to 7.24600 Ma
Collections (16 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Serravallian | USA (Maryland) | Mercenaria cuneata (type locality: 55396 60376 70830 70832 70844 70845 70846 71638 71639) | |
Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | Mercenaria cuneata (71642 71643) | |
Tortonian | USA (Maryland) | Mercenaria cuneata (71631 71635) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Maryland) | Mercenaria cuneata (51727 59302 59305) |