Glyptoactis

Glyptoactis
Temporal range: 66.043–2.58 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Carditoida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Genus: Glyptoactis
Stewart, 1930[1]
Subgenera and species
  • Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) Stenzel and Krause, 1957[2]
  • Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) Maxwell, 1969
  • Glyptoactis (Glyptoactis) Stewart, 1930
  • Glyptoactis alticostata Conrad, 1833
  • Glyptoactis aversa (Pilsbry and Johnson, 1917)
  • Glyptoactis carmenensis Clark and Durham, 1946
  • Glyptoactis charanalensis (Olsson, 1931)
  • Glyptoactis hadra (Dall, 1903)
  • Glyptoactis metaicha Woodring, 1982
  • Glyptoactis mutabilis (dArchaic and Haime, 1954)
  • Glyptoactis paraguanensis (Hodson, 1931)
  • Glyptoactis serricosta (Heilprin, 1887)
  • Glyptoactis stenygra Woodring, 1982

Glyptoactis is a genus of bivalves in the family Carditidae. Some species are also known from the fossil record. They have been recovered from the Castle Hayne Limestone geologic formation in North Carolina and in France.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. RB Stewart, 1930
  2. ↑ Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City Beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas. HB Stenzel, EK Krause and JT Twining, 1957
  3. ↑ Un coquillage de bivalve du Maastrichtien-Paléocène Glyptoactis (Baluchicardia) sp. dans la couche inférieure du gisement moustérien de «Chez-Pourré-Chezchez-Comte» (Corrèze). V Lhomme and S Freneix, Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 1993


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