Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Alternative combinations: Diplodonta (Diplodonta) orbella, Diplodonta orbellus, Lucina orbella, Taras orbellus
Synonym: Diplodonta semiaspera discrepans Carpenter 1857
Belongs to Diplodonta according to A. Hendy 2021
See also Clark 1931, Coan et al. 2000, Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, Loel and Corey 1932, Moore 1988 and Powell and Stevens 2000
Sister taxa: Diplodonta (Diplodonta), Diplodonta (Microstagon), Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma), Diplodonta (Sphaerella), Diplodonta (Timothynus), Diplodonta (Zemysina), Diplodonta acclinis, Diplodonta aleutica, Diplodonta astartea, Diplodonta balcombensis, Diplodonta confusa, Diplodonta corbiscula, Diplodonta cornea, Diplodonta davisi, Diplodonta dilatata, Diplodonta dissona, Diplodonta ferruginata, Diplodonta globosa, Diplodonta hopkinsiensis, Diplodonta incerta, Diplodonta inconspicua, Diplodonta infrequens, Diplodonta lupinus, Diplodonta mediamericana, Diplodonta nucleiformis, Diplodonta paralta, Diplodonta parilis, Diplodonta problematica, Diplodonta punctata, Diplodonta shilohensis, Diplodonta soror, Diplodonta subquadrata, Diplodonta subrotunda, Diplodonta subrotundata, Diplodonta subvexa, Diplodonta torelli, Diplodonta transversaria, Diplodonta vaticani, Diplodonta villardeboeana, Diplodonta zelandica, Taras (Diplodonta) alta, Felaniella palmerae, Diplodonta (Felaniella) sericata, Felaniella confusa, Felaniella (Felaniella), Felaniella senegalensis, Felaniella insula, Taras (Taras), Taras griesensis, Taras goodspeedi, Felaniella (Zemysia) elliptica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mexico (6 collections), United States (12: California)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (3), United States (12: California)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence
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