Thracia Blainville 1824 (clam)

Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae

Synonyms: Eximiothracia Iredale 1924, Osteodesma

Parent taxon: Thraciidae according to S. Schneider et al. 2005

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Durham 1944, Faustman 1964, Freneix et al. 1988, Glenn 1904, Hickman 2014, Marasti 1973, Moore 1976, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Asthenothaerinae, Bushia, Corymya, Parvithracia, Phragmorisma, Thracidentula, Thracidora, Thraciopsis

Subtaxa: Eximiothracia perscabrosa Thracia (Cetothrax) Thracia (Crassithracia) Thracia (Cyathodonta) Thracia (Homoeodesma) Thracia (Ixartia) Thracia (Odoncineta) Thracia (Thracia) Thracia alciope Thracia applanata Thracia brioni Thracia curtansata Thracia declivis Thracia depressa Thracia dilleri Thracia formosa Thracia gibsonensis Thracia grignonensis Thracia incerta Thracia jacalitosana Thracia karquinesensis Thracia keaseyensis Thracia kissoumi Thracia ludovica Thracia mactroides Thracia mactropsis Thracia oblata Thracia papyracea Thracia parvula Thracia prisca Thracia proavita Thracia schencki Thracia sorrentoensis Thracia stelcki Thracia suciensis Thracia ventricosa Thracia viceliacensis Thracia weedi

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Type: Mya pubescens

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (2), Canada (3: Nunavut), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (1), Greenland (2), Iceland (1), Mexico (2), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (41: California, Florida, Maine, New York, North Carolina, Oregon)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Costa Rica (1), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (17: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (3), Belgium (7), Colombia (1), Denmark (1), Ecuador (1), Germany (9), India (1), Italy (7), Japan (5), the Netherlands (2), Panama (8), Poland (1), Puerto Rico (4), the Russian Federation (15), Slovakia (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Austria (3), Denmark (2), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), Japan (2), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (32: Alaska, California, Florida, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Bulgaria (2), Croatia (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (35: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)

• Paleocene of Denmark (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (7), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (6: Alberta, Northwest Territories), Chile (1), China (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), France (5), Germany (3), Japan (3), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (14), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (5), United States (9: Alaska, Mississippi, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Canada (4: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (1), China (2), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (5), France (16), Germany (1), Greenland (31), India (16), Japan (6), Jordan (5), Kenya (1), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (5), Poland (1), Portugal (49), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (28), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (6), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Tanzania (5), Thailand (4), Tunisia (9), the United Kingdom (27), United States (20: Alaska, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Singapore (1)

• Triassic of China (1), Germany (3), Indonesia (2), Laos (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (1)

Total: 633 collections including 671 occurrences

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