Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Alternative combinations: Diplodonta (Diplodonta) orbella, Diplodonta orbellus, Lucina orbella, Taras orbellus, Zemysina orbella
Synonym: Diplodonta semiaspera discrepans Carpenter 1857
Belongs to Diplodonta according to A. Hendy 2021
See also Bruff 1946, Clark 1931, Coan et al. 2000, Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, Dino 1994, Huber et al. 2015, 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, Taras orbella, Taras (Taras), Taras goodspeedi, Taras griesensis, Felaniella insula, Felaniella confusa, Felaniella palmerae, Diplodonta (Felaniella) sericata, Felaniella (Felaniella), Felaniella senegalensis, Felaniella (Zemysia) elliptica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Mexico (6 collections), United States (13: California)
• Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (3), United States (20: California)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
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