Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Meretricinae according to L. C. Glenn 1904
See also Papier 2001 and Rosenberg 2005
Sister taxa: Aeora, Cytheriopsis, Eomeretrix, Grateloupia, Meretricini, Meretrissa, Meretrix, Resatrix, Tivela, Tivelina
Subtaxa: Cytherea adabionensis Cytherea aequorea Cytherea ambigua Cytherea astartiformis Cytherea avia Cytherea capillacea Cytherea corbuloides Cytherea curionii Cytherea elegantula Cytherea elliptica Cytherea erycinoides Cytherea eversa Cytherea gruneri Cytherea humerosa Cytherea hunteri Cytherea imitabilis Cytherea jerdoni Cytherea lamberti Cytherea mississippiensis Cytherea mortoni Cytherea murrayana Cytherea nuttali Cytherea obsoleta Cytherea orbicularis Cytherea oregonensis Cytherea paucirugata Cytherea pectinata Cytherea perbrevis Cytherea poulsoni Cytherea rawesi Cytherea rhaetica Cytherea scinctilla Cytherea sobrina Cytherea soror Cytherea subcrassa Cytherea submultistriata Cytherea tenuidentata Cytherea trigoniata Cytherea wapsharei Cytherea wilsoni Cytherea wohltmanni
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection), France (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Poland (2), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Egypt (3), Mexico (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1), United States (2: Arkansas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Cameroon (3), Chile (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 30 collections including 42 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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