Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Parent taxon: Laternulidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Russell and Landes 1937 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anatimya, Cercomya, Orthomya, Periplomya, Planariomya, Platymyoidea, Plectomya, Tulongella
Subtaxa: Laternula (Laternulina) Laternula albertensis Laternula alisoensis Laternula fuchsi Laternula jidiensis Laternula valenciennesii
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (2 collections), Australia (1), Pakistan (1)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1)
• Miocene of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Lebanon (1), United States (43: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas)
• Jurassic of Portugal (2)
• Triassic of China (1), Italy (2), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 71 collections including 76 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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