Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Full reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283
Parent taxon: Crassatellinae according to L. W. Ward 1992
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Bathytormus, Crassatella, Crassatina, Salaputium, Talabrica, Tilicrassatella, Uddenia
Subtaxa: Marvacrassatella kauffmani Marvacrassatella marylandica Marvacrassatella melina Marvacrassatella surryensis Marvacrassatella turgidula Marvacrassatella urbannensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (5: North Carolina, South Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of United States (23: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of United States (47: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)
Total: 75 collections including 79 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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