Bivalvia - Pandorida - Clavagellidae
Parent taxon: Clavagellidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Jones and Nicol 1989, Maxwell 1978, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Ascaulocardium, Brechites, Brechitinae, Bryopinae, Humphreyia, Penicillinae, Penicillus, Stirpulina, Aspergillum, Cryptocolax
Subtaxa: Clavagella (Bryopa) Clavagella (Clavagella) Clavagella (Dacosta) Clavagella armata Clavagella echinata Clavagella liratum Clavagella primigenia Clavagella semisulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Greece (2 collections)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (1), Malta (1), New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Paleocene of Belgium (4), France (1), Germany (1)
• Cretaceous of France (1), India (1), United States (16: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee)
Total: 37 collections including 39 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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