†family Ceratomyidae Arkell 1934 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae

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

See also Aberhan 2004, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxon: Pleuromyidae

Subtaxa: Ceratomya Ceratomyinae Ceromyella Gresslya Makoiamya Myopholadinae Ochotomya Pholadomyocardia Pteromya

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Chile (1 collection), Germany (1), Japan (1), Laos (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (2), Bulgaria (3), Canada (6: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (37), China (12), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (9), France (18), Germany (13), Greenland (36), Hungary (1), India (6), Iran (5), Italy (2), Japan (1), Jordan (14), Kenya (11), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (15), Mexico (5), Poland (4), Portugal (28), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (32), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (9), Spain (38), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (3), Tunisia (42), the United Kingdom (59), United States (4: Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1), Yemen (11)

• Triassic to Jurassic of France (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (5)

• Triassic of the Netherlands (2), New Caledonia (8), New Zealand (100), the Russian Federation (27), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 602 collections including 698 occurrences

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