Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Alternative spellings: Arca (Nemodon), Parallelodon (Nemodon)
Parent taxon: Grammatodontinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Anderson 1958, Melville 1956, Russell and Landes 1937, Sepkoski 2002 and Yamani 1982
Sister taxa: Aptolinter, Catellini, Cryptochasma, Grammatodon, Grammatodontini, Nanonavis, Nemodontini, Notogrammatodon, Pseudogrammatodon, Pseudomacrodon, Stenocolpus, Torinosucatella, Obliquidon, Nordenskjoeldia
Subtaxa: Nemodon (Nemodon) Nemodon brevifrons Nemodon canadensis Nemodon grandis Nemodon textrina Nemodon vancouverensis Parallelodon (Nemodon) nuarsense
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (2: Alabama, Texas)
• Paleocene of Germany (1), United States (6: New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Colombia (1), India (3), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Mexico (4), Mozambique (1), United States (207: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (4), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 236 collections including 278 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.