Eucrassatella Iredale 1924 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Alternative spellings: Crassatella (Eucrassatella), Crassatellites (Eucrassatella), Eucrassinella

Parent taxon: Crassatellidae according to K. S. Collins et al. 2014

See also Barrios 1960, Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, DuBar 1958, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 2003, Mukerjee 1939, Perrilliat 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Uozumi 1955, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Anthonya, Crassatellinae, Incatina, Pachythaerus, Ptychomyinae, Scambulinae, Spissatella

Subtaxa: Eucrassatella (Eucrassatella) Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) Eucrassatella ampla Eucrassatella aphrodina Eucrassatella decipiens Eucrassatella eupontica Eucrassatella kingicoloides Eucrassatella marshalli Eucrassatella maudensis Eucrassatella montserratensis Eucrassatella oblonga Eucrassatella pulchra Eucrassatella rostrata Eucrassatella scopalveus Eucrassatella wilckensi

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Type: Crassatella kingicola

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Costa Rica (1), Panama (1), United States (13: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (7), Ecuador (1), India (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (11: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene of Australia (15), Colombia (41), Ecuador (8), Grenada (3), India (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (33), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (4), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (11: California, Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (13)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (2: California)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: California), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Australia (2), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 221 collections including 237 occurrences

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