Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Parent taxon: Mactromyidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Meek 1864 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bathycorbis, Clisocolus, Cordiula, Eolucina, Linetia, Mactromya, Mactromyopsis, Montanaria, Paracyclas, Sexta, Thetironia, Thetis
Subtaxa: Unicardium schmidii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Eocene of India (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Denmark (1), Jamaica (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (37: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Chile (5), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (1), Greenland (6), India (8), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Spain (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (6), Peru (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), United States (2: Utah)
Total: 94 collections including 98 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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