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Species Cardita patagonica Sowerby 1846



Discussion / Comments:
Griffin & Nielsen (2008):
TYPE MATERIAL. Syntype: NHM-27955-6. The two numbers on the label suggest that at least a second syntype (but probably more) – now lost – was available to Sowerby. REMARKS. One of the most common carditids in the Patagonian Tertiary. The only specimen in the Sowerby Collection is a worn and broken left valve, while Sowerby’s figure shows a complete valve, a further indication that other syntypes existed in the collection. Our own collections from Santa Cruz confirm that this species belongs in Fasciculicardia Maxwell, 1969 [type species Venericardia subintermedia Suter, 1917], a subgenus of Glyptoactis Stewart, 1930 according to Beu & Maxwell (1990, p. 218).
Synonym list:
Griffin & Nielsen (2008):
1846 Cardita patagonica Sowerby. - Sowerby : p.251 pl. 2; fig. 17
1887 Cardita inaequalis Philippi. - Philippi : p.167 pl. 37; fig. 5
1902 Cardita inaequalis Philippi. - Ortmann : p.167 pl. 26; fig. 7a-7d
1907 Venericardia patagonica Sowerby. - Ihering : 283-284 pl. 10; fig. 67a-67b
1907 Venericardia inaequalis Philippi. - Ihering : p.284
? 1979 Cardiocardita inaequalis Philippi. - Malumian et al. : p.275 pl. 3; fig. 5
2008 Fasciculicardia patagonica Sowerby. - Griffin & Nielsen : pl. 12; fig. 6-7
References:

Sowerby,G.B.. (1846):
Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America..
In: Geological observations on South America. Eds: Darwin, C.. p. 249-264

Philippi,R.A.. (1887):
Die tertiären und quartären Versteinerungen Chiles.. p. 266

Ortmann,A.E.. (1902):
Tertiary invertebrates: Reports of the Princeton Expedition to Patagonia, 1896–1899. Vol. 4(2) p. 45-332

Ihering,H.. (1907):
Les mollusques fossiles du Tertiaire et du Crétacé Supérieur de l’Argentine . Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 3/7 p. 611

Malumian,N..; Camacho,H.H.. and Gorrono,R.. (1979):
Moluscos del Terciario inferior de la isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, República Argentina . Ameghiniana Vol. 15 p. 265-284

Griffin,M.. and Nielsen,S.N.. (2008):
A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d’Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846), and Hupé (1854) . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

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