Bivalvia - Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
Parent taxon: Gastrochaenidae according to S. Freneix et al. 1988
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Cucurbitula, Eufistulana, Eufistulaninae, Gastrochaeninae, Gastrochaenopsis, Kummelia, Lamychaena, Spengleriinae
Subtaxa: Gastrochaena (Rocellaria) Gastrochaena (Spengleri) Gastrochaena (Spengleria) Gastrochaena couvana Gastrochaena cuneiformis Gastrochaena deshayesea Gastrochaena dubitata Gastrochaena gigantea Gastrochaena hians Gastrochaena mississippiensis Gastrochaena moreana Gastrochaena obtusa Gastrochaena ovata Gastrochaena ripleyana Gastrochaena rotunda
Type: Gastrochaena cuneiformis
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Japan (2), Kenya (1), South Africa (1), United States (8: Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina), Uruguay (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (4), Costa Rica (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Florida, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Bulgaria (2), France (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Malta (1), Moldova (10), Panama (1), Poland (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (6: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (2)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Namibia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (12: Alabama, California, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), France (1), United States (6: Georgia, Maryland, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Chile (2), Colombia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Switzerland (5), United States (13: California, Delaware, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (5)
• Permian of Pakistan (1)
Total: 142 collections including 166 occurrences
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