Cyrenida

Cyrenida; Temporal range: Jurassic - Quaternary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Fossils of
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:
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]

† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1857
† Cailland 1823
† Deshayes 1860
† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1824
† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1857
† Deshayes 1857
† Brongniart
† Deshayes 1857

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

References[]

^ 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
^ ^a ^b Fossilworks
^ 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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[WoRMS-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

[AA-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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