Trinacria Mayer 1868 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Parent taxon: Trinacriinae according to D. T. Dockery 1982

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Matsubara et al. 2010, Popenoe 1937, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Linter, Pachecoa

Subtaxa: Trinacria (Pachecoa) Trinacria adamsi Trinacria cancellata Trinacria cor Trinacria cuneus Trinacria menthifontis Trinacria nipponica Trinacria ovalis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (11: Florida collections)

• Oligocene of United States (4: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Belgium (2), France (2), Hungary (1), Japan (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1)

• Cretaceous of Colombia (1), United States (22: California)

Total: 63 collections including 67 occurrences

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