Family Trapezidae Lamy 1920 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae

Alternative spelling: Trapeziidae

Synonyms: Cypricardiidae Dall 1895, Kitsoniidae Eames 1957, Libitinidae Thiele 1926, Lithophagellidae Cossmann 1911

Parent taxon: Arcticoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Squires 1999 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Arcticidae, Bernardinidae, Euloxidae, Pollicidae, Veniellidae, Veniellinae

Subtaxa: Coralliophaga Corbiculopsis Cypricardia Glossocardia Kitsonia Langvophorus Libitina Lithophagella Pseudopleurophorus Straelenotrapezium Tortucardia Trapezium

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), Kenya (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (2), Tonga (2), United States (4: Florida, Hawaii)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (2), the United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (3), Bulgaria (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Japan (8), Moldova (11), Poland (4)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), Egypt (1), France (1), India (1), Japan (6), Romania (2), Senegal (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Alabama, California)

• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Alabama, Maryland)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (5), Spain (1), Switzerland (1)

• Jurassic of France (3), Italy (1)

• Triassic of Germany (2), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Vietnam (1)

• Permian of Australia (1)

Total: 116 collections including 130 occurrences

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