Family Condylocardiidae Bernard 1896 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Condylocardiidae

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

See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, PĂ©rez 2019, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxa: Aenigmoconchidae, Astartidae, Cardiniidae, Carditidae, Crassatellidae, Hippopodiidae, Myophoricardiidae

Subtaxa: Carditellidae Carditellinae Condylocardiinae Cuninae Erycinella

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), South Africa (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

• Pliocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Belgium (4), Indonesia (2), New Zealand (1), South Africa (5), Trinidad and Tobago (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (6), Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (2), Grenada (1), Indonesia (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Mississippi)

• Eocene of France (4), New Zealand (1), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene of Nigeria (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (73: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas)

Total: 133 collections including 144 occurrences

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