Callista (Microcallista) Stewart 1930 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative spelling: Microcallista

Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314

Parent taxon: Callista according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995

See also Le Renard and Pacaud 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Callista (Callista), Callista annexa, Callista diemenensis, Callista elongatotrigona, Callista gigantea, Callista kitsoni, Callista mcgrathiana, Callista planatella, Callista pseudoplana, Callista subdiaphana, Callista subtrigona, Cytherea (Callista) exintermedia, Cytherea (Callista) florida, Cytherea (Callista) splendida, Meretrix (Callista) montensis

Subtaxa: Callista (Microcallista) ariakensis Callista (Microcallista) proxima

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Type: Cytherea proxima

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Belgium (2 collections), Greenland (4), Japan (10)

• Paleogene of Japan (1)

• Paleocene of Belgium (2), France (1)

• Cretaceous of United States (2: California)

Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence

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