Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Alternative spellings: Gobraeus, Psammobia (Gobraeus)
Parent taxon: Gari according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Hendy 2020, Oldroyd 1925, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Gari (Amphipsammus), Gari (Gari), Gari (Garum), Gari (Grammatomya), Gari (Kermadysmea), Gari (Psammobella), Gari (Psammobia), Gari (Psammocola), Gari (Psammodonax), Gari (Psammoica), Gari (Psammotaena), Gari aequalis, Gari brouwersae, Gari maculosa, Gari martini, Gari olequahensis, Gari squamosa, Gari weinkauffi
Subtaxa: Gari (Gobraeus) californica Gari (Gobraeus) columbiana Gari (Gobraeus) cowlitzensis Gari (Gobraeus) diegoensis Gari (Gobraeus) eoundulata Gari (Gobraeus) fucata Gari (Gobraeus) hornii Gari (Gobraeus) listrota Gari (Gobraeus) loustauae Gari (Gobraeus) maxima Gari (Gobraeus) texta Gari (Gobraeus) vespertinus
Type: Solen vespertinus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Panama (2 collections), United States (20: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), the Philippines (1), United States (8: California)
• Miocene of Panama (3), Poland (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1), Panama (5), the Russian Federation (1), United States (72: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), United States (6: California)
Total: 133 collections including 136 occurrences