Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Alternative spellings: Linearia, Tellina (Linearia)
Parent taxon: Tellininae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Kosnik 2002, Russell and Landes 1937, Sepkoski 2002 and Warren 1933
Sister taxa: Abranda, Aenona, Agnomyax, Angulus, Arcopagella, Arcopaginula, Arcopagiopsis, Clathrotellina, Hemimetis, Hercodon, Jactellina, Laciolina, Liothyris, Macomona, Obtellina, Palaeomoera, Pharaonella, Phylloda, Pinguitellina, Pistris, Pseudarcopagia, Punipagia, Quadrans, Quidnipagus, Scutarcopagia, Semelangulus, Solyma, Strigilla, Tampaella, Tellidora, Tellinides, Tellinimera, Tellipiura, Tonganaella
Subtaxa: Linearia formosa Linearia multicostata Linearia semistriata Tellina (Linearia) delicatula
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (26), Austria (2), Canada (4: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Egypt (3), Germany (2), India (3), Japan (8), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (192: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 251 collections including 321 occurrences
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