Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Alternative spelling: Solemya (Acharax)
Synonym: Janacekia Růžička 1978
Parent taxon: Solemyinae according to J. B. Bailey 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, Huber 2010, Kaim et al. 2014, Kiel and Taviana 2018, Moore 1983, Moore 1984, Natori 1964, Olsson 1931, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1938
Sister taxon: Mazonomya
Subtaxa: Acharax (Nacrosolemya) Acharax belenensis Acharax clarificata Acharax costellata Acharax cylindrica Acharax doderleini Acharax dunnensis Acharax frenademezi Acharax herberti Acharax holmwoodensis Acharax incertis Acharax johnsoni Acharax normalis Acharax parallela Acharax petschorica Acharax primaeva Acharax radiata Acharax solikamica Acharax stantoni Acharax ventricosa Solemya (Acharax) burica Solemya (Acharax) muroensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Italy (2), Japan (3), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Italy (1), Japan (7), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), United States (2: Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (8: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (4: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Cretaceous of Japan (2), United States (5: California)
• Jurassic of United States (2: California)
• Permian of Australia (1), China (1), Italy (4), Oman (2), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (6), United States (4: Arizona, New Mexico)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (17: Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio)
Total: 102 collections including 112 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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