Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Alternative spellings: Gastrana (Macoma), Tellina (Macoma)
Parent taxon: Tellinidae according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Durham 1944, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Gardner 1943, Gardner 1947, Glenn 1904, Hendy 2007, Hickman 2015, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 1984, Nagao 1928, Nagao 1928, Nielson and Valdovinos 2008, Olsson 1931, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1999, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Acorylus, Ameritella, Arcopagia, Arcopagiinae, Barytellina, Cymatoica, Florimetis, Fragilia, Gastrana, Idatellina, Lavignon, Lutricola, Macominae, Maera, Merisca, Metis, Nelltia, Peiricola, Serratina, Sourimis, Strigillinae, Tellina, Tellininae
Subtaxa: Macoma (Austromacoma) Macoma (Bendemacoma) Macoma (Heteromacoma) Macoma (Macoma) Macoma (Macoploma) Macoma (Panacoma) Macoma (Psammacoma) Macoma (Rexithaerus) Macoma (Salmacoma) Macoma (Scissulina) Macoma albaria Macoma astori Macoma brota Macoma constricta Macoma costaricana Macoma danai Macoma edentula Macoma fusca Macoma inornata Macoma kirkinskayae Macoma lenis Macoma limula Macoma lissoni Macoma marylandica Macoma meroensis Macoma montesanoensis Macoma nasuta Macoma osakaensis Macoma pabloensis Macoma simizuensis Macoma snohomishensis Macoma sookensis Macoma tenta Macoma tenuiplicata Macoma tigilensis Macoma uruguayensis Macoma viticola Macoma wilcoxi Macoma wynootcheensis Macoma yamadai
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Belgium (1), Belize (1), Canada (100: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Chile (1), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (3), French Polynesia (1), Greenland (37), Haiti (1), Iceland (12), Ireland (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (10), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (6), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (5), the Seychelles (5), South Africa (5), the United Kingdom (29), United States (178: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington), Uruguay (3), Venezuela (2)
• Blancan of United States (3: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4), United States (4: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Chile (4), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (4), Iceland (5), India (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (15), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (47: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (15: Alaska, California)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (7), Brazil (3), Chile (1), Colombia (28), the Dominican Republic (5), Ecuador (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (49), Mexico (5), New Zealand (2), Panama (73), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (33), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (136: Alaska, California, Florida, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (8)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Ecuador (1), Japan (5), Mexico (1), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (8), United States (46: Alaska, California, Washington)
• Eocene of Colombia (1), Japan (2), Nigeria (2), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (3), United States (57: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: California)
Total: 1056 collections including 1376 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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