Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Parent taxon: Tellininae according to G. Rosenberg 2005
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Abranda, Aenona, Agnomyax, Angulus, Arcopagella, Arcopaginula, Arcopagiopsis, Clathrotellina, Hemimetis, Hercodon, Jactellina, Laciolina, Linearis, Liothyris, Macomona, Obtellina, Palaeomoera, Pharaonella, Phylloda, Pinguitellina, Pistris, Pseudarcopagia, Punipagia, Quadrans, Quidnipagus, Scutarcopagia, Semelangulus, Solyma, Strigilla, Tampaella, Tellinides, Tellinimera, Tellipiura, Tonganaella
Subtaxa: Tellidora burnetti Tellidora cristata Tellidora lunulata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Mexico (1), United States (27: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4)
• Miocene of Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Peru (1)
Total: 42 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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