Palestinarca

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Palestinarca
Temporal range: Aptian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Arcida
Family: Arcidae
Genus: Palestinarca
Vokes, 1946
Type species
Palestinarca palestina

Palestinarca is an extinct genus of ark clams [1] that inhabited the Tethys Ocean in what is now Lebanon during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. It is known from the species P. palestina. [2]

References

  1. "†Palestinarca Vokes 1946 (clam)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  2. Nicol, David (1954). "Nomenclatural Review of Genera and Subgenera of Cucullaeidae". Journal of Paleontology . 28 (1): 96–101. ISSN   0022-3360. JSTOR   1300214 . Retrieved 6 October 2024.