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Tegillarca sp.

genus Tegillarca Iredale, 1939

• Modern species: middle Miocene - Present (16.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Arcoida, family Arcidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Gifu
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Saitama
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Ishikawa, Fukui, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Kyoto
• Holocene: Toyama, Saitama, Chiba, Aichi
• Investigation in progress: Tokyo

• Subtaxa
• T. addita
• T. granosa, Blood cockle