Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Parent taxon: Mytilidae according to G. Wienrich 1999
See also Dockery 1982, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Adipicola, Amygdalum, Antetrichomya, Arcomytilus, Arcuatula, Arcuatulinae, Arvella, Aulacomya, Bathymodiolinae, Bathymodiolus, Botulina, Botulopa, Botulopsis, Brachiodontes, Ciboticola, Coxesia, Crenomytilus, Cuneolus, Dacrydium, Eyrena, Falcimytilus, Fluviolanatus, Geukensia, Hilgardella, Inoperna, Lecompteus, Lioberus, Lithophaga, Lithophaginae, Lycettia, Mauricia, Modiolaria, Modiolatus, Modiolinae, Modiolus, Musculista, Mytilaster, Mytilinae, Mytiloconcha, Phthonia, Promytilus, Rhomboidella, Stavelia, Trichomusculus, Trichomya, Volsella, Volsellina, Vulcanidas, Xenomytilinae, Xenostrobus
Subtaxa: Arcoperna inflata Arcoperna linteata Arcoperna nuculaeformis Arcoperna serica
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (5 collections), the United Kingdom (2)
• Miocene of Belgium (3), Germany (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (2), Hungary (2), United States (3: Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of United States (4: Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Belgium (3), Denmark (2), Germany (1)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 32 collections including 33 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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