†family Hippopodiidae Cox 1969 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Hippopodiidae

Parent taxon: Crassatellacea according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Nevesskaja 2009 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014

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

Subtaxa: Hippopodium

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections), Greenland (25), Tanzania (8), the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 39 collections including 40 occurrences

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