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Acharax

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2288389	https://www.gbif.org/species/2288389
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16150	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16150

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Solemyida : Solemyidae : Acharax

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Protobranchia	Pelseneer 1889
superorder	Nuculiformii	Dall 1889
order	Solemyida	Newell 1965
superfamily	Solemyoidea	Adams and Adams 1857
family	Solemyidae	Adams and Adams 1857
genus	Acharax	Dall 1908

Scientific Name

Acharax Dall, 1908

Name Published In

Nautilus, 22

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyacidae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Acharax	subgenus	belongs to Solemya	stated with evidence	Kuroda, 1948
Acharax	subgenus	belongs to Solemya	stated without evidence	Natori, 1964
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Moore, 1984
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Spencer et al., 2004
Acharax	genus	belongs to Acharacidae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Huber, 2010
Acharax	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic (based on Solemyidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Solemyidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder, chemosymbiotic (based on Solemyidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Solemyidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite,thin,none (based on Solemyidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acharax alinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax bartschii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax belenensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Acharax burica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax caribbaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax clarificata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Acharax doderleini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Acharax gadirae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax gigas species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax grandis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax johnsoni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Acharax muroensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax patagonica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax prashadi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax stantoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax subquadrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax subventricosta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax svalbardensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax ventricosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Acharax yessoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acharax yokosukensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Solemya (Acharax) burica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Solemya (Acharax) muroensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Solemya burica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1908	Acharax Dall
1931	Acharax Olsson p. 31
1948	Solemya (Acharax) Kuroda p. 29
1964	Solemya (Acharax) Natori p. 249
1980	Acharax Vokes p. 8
1984	Acharax Moore p. 25
2000	Acharax Coan et al. p. 66

Year	Name and Author
2002	Acharax Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Acharax Spencer et al.
2010	Acharax Bouchet et al.
2010	Acharax Huber p. 90
2012	Acharax Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 52
2018	Acharax Kiel and Taviana

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Natori H. (1964) Some molluscan fossils from the Tertiary Muro Group in the Kii Peninsula, Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 55 472, 247-255

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Moore E. J. (1984) Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 351, 1-42

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Spencer H. G., Willan R. C., et al (2004) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html]

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Huber M. (2010) , Compendium of bivalves: A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research, 1-901

Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258

Kiel S., Taviana M. (2018) Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the late Pliocene Stirone River hydrocarbon seep complex in northern Italy, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00473.2018

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. - via World Register of Marine Species

Nautilus, 22 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto, 1999: null. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. 749. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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