Anadara diluvii
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| Anadara diluvii Temporal range: | |
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| Right (top) and left (down) valve of Anadara diluvii, Badenian of Austria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Arcida |
| Family: | Arcidae |
| Genus: | Anadara |
| Species: | A. diluvii |
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| Anadara diluvii † (Lamarck, 1805) | |
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Anadara diluvii is an extinct species of saltwater bivalves, ark clams, in the family Arcidae.[1]
Fossil records
This species is known in the fossil record from the Oligocene period to the Quaternary period (age range: 23.03 to 0.012 million years ago).[4]
Distribution
Fossils have been found in the Quaternary of Spain. In the Pliocene of Algeria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, in the Miocene of Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and in the Oligocene of Austria and Hungary.[4]
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