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Arca elegantula De Koninck 1844

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Arca elegantula De Koninck, 1844 Original source De Koninck (1844): 634. Type stratum and age “calcaire de montagne de Visé”; V3b and V3c, Visean, Mississippian, Carboniferous (Demanet 1958: 29; Godefroid et al. 2006). Type locality “ Visé ”; quarries south of Visé, on the east side of the Meuse River valley (Demanet 1958; Godefroid et al. 2006), Belgium. Type material The material of De Koninck (1842–1844) is stored in the collection of the Géologie de l’Université Lyon, but the syntypes of this species could not be found there. Remarks Replacement name for Arca elegans De Koninck, 1842 (p. 117, pl. 2 fig. 3a–b), non Arca elegans Roemer, 1836. De Koninck (1885) attributed the species to Parallelodon. Today valid as Cypricardinia elegantula according to Amler (1987).

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20750619

Authors: Friedel, Julia C., Neubauer, Thomas A., Amler, Michael R. W.

Institutions: University of Cologne, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Philipps University of Marburg

Topic: Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W7165178341

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