Glyptoactis

Glyptoactis Temporal range: 66.043–2.58 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Carditoidea
Family:	Carditidae
Genus:	Glyptoactis Stewart, 1930[1]
Subgenera and species
See text.

Glyptoactis is a mostly extinct genus of bivalves in the family Carditidae. They have been recovered from the Castle Hayne Limestone geologic formation in North Carolina and in France.^[2]

Subgenera and species[]

Subgenera:

• †Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) Stenzel and Krause, 1957^[3]
• † Maxwell, 1969
• Stewart, 1930

Species according to the World Register of Marine Species as of April 2019:

• † (Suter, 1917)
• † P. A. Maxwell, 1992
• † (C. A. Fleming, 1950)
• † (Thomson, 1908)
• † (Suter, 1917)
• † (Dall, 1903)
• † (C. A. Fleming, 1950)
• † (d'Orbigny, 1850)
• † (Marwick, 1928)
• † (Suter, 1917)
• (Weisbord, 1964)

Other species according to Fossilworks:^[4]

• † (Pilsbry and Johnson, 1917)
• † Clark and Durham, 1946
• † (Olsson, 1931)
• † Woodring, 1982
• † (dArchaic and Haime, 1954)
• † (Hodson, 1931)
• † (Heilprin, 1887)
• † Woodring, 1982

Notes:

• In some classifications, †, or †Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata, is considered †Glyptoactis alticostata Conrad, 1833.^[5]
• In some classifications, † is considered †Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica.^[6]

References[]

External links[]

• "Glyptoactis" at the Encyclopedia of Life
• Glyptoactis at fossilworks.org

This bivalve-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t