Grammatodon Meek and Hayden 1860 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae

Parent taxon: Grammatodontinae according to E. Gliozzi and A. Malatesta 1983

See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Aptolinter, Catellini, Cryptochasma, Grammatodontini, Nanonavis, Nemodon, Nemodontini, Notogrammatodon, Pseudogrammatodon, Pseudomacrodon, Stenocolpus, Torinosucatella, Obliquidon, Nordenskjoeldia

Subtaxa: Grammatodon (Grammatodon) Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Grammatodon (Lamellelodon) Grammatodon (Nanonavis) Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) Grammatodon concinnus Grammatodon inornata Grammatodon insons Grammatodon malayensis Grammatodon sulcatus Grammatodon toyorensis Grammatodon tripartitus

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Type: Arca (Cucullaea) inornata

Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection)

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (2), France (3), Germany (1), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (23), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (4), New Zealand (7), Poland (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (33: California, Texas)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (8), Bulgaria (4), Canada (19: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (4), China (4), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), France (27), Germany (35), Greenland (54), India (113), Iran (1), Japan (6), Kenya (6), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (11), Mexico (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (15), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (4), Portugal (45), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (11), Spain (94), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (12), Tanzania (17), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (62), United States (28: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Vietnam (1), Yemen (16)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Iran (1), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Permian of China (5), Greece (6), United States (2: Nevada)

• Westphalian of Spain (1)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Kentucky)

• Devonian of United States (20: Nevada, New York)

• Paleozoic of Chile (1)

Total: 768 collections including 849 occurrences

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