Meretrix (bivalve)
| Meretrix Temporal range: Cenomanian–Present
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| Meretrix lyrata (Sowerby, 1851) for sale as food in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China | |
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| A whole shell of Meretrix lyrata showing both the outside and the inside | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
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| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Meretrix Lamarck 1799 |
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| Meretrix lyrata Sowerby 1851
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Meretrix is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. They appeared in the fossil record in the Cenomanian age.
Species[]
Species in the genus Meretrix include:[1]
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- Meretrix lusoria
- Meretrix lyrata
- †, early Danian Lefipán Formation, Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Argentina[3]
- †, Paleocene Martinez Formation of California
- †, Cenomanian of the United Arab Emirates[4]
- †, Oligocene of Japan
- †, Paleocene to Eocene California
- †, Paleocene of Pakistan
- †, Miocene of Peru
- †, Eocene Boca de Serpiente Formation of Trinidad and Tobago
- †, Miocene of Iran and India
- †, Eocene of Saudi Arabia
- †, Paleocene California
- †, Eocene Trinidad and Tobago and Maryland
- †, Paleocene to Eocene California
References[]
- ^ Meretrix at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Meretrix lamarckii at GBIF
- ^ Goin et al., 2006, p.506
- ^ Ras al Khaimah, UAE at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography[]
- ; ; ; ; ; ; ; , and . 2006. The earliest Tertiary therian mammal from South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26. 505–510. Accessed 2019-03-30.
Further reading[]
- Reid, Shannon (2003). "Meretrix lyrata (Soweby, 1851)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-23.OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, Academy of Natural Sciences.
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Categories:
- Veneridae
- Bivalve genera
- Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
- Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
- Molluscs described in 1799
- Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Extant Cenomanian first appearances
- Veneridae stubs