Cyrenida

Cyrenida
Temporal range: Jurassic - Quaternary
Fossils of Cyrena sirena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Veneroida
Family: Cyrenidae
Genus: Cyrenida
Lamarck

Cyrenida is an extinct genus of clams in the family Cyrenidae. This name is now accepted as a synonym of Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 [1]

Species

Species within this genus include: [2][3]

Fossils within this genus can be found in sediment of Europe, United States, Colombia, Peru, Panama and Tanzania from Jurassic to Quaternary (age range: 189.6 to 0.781 Ma).[2]

References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Cyrena. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=525448 on 2015-08-26
  2. 1 2 Fossilworks
  3. D. ESU and O. GIROTTI The late Oligocene molluscan fauna from Otranto (Apulia, Southern Italy): an example of alternating freshwater, lagoonal and emerged environments

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