Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Alternative spellings: Brachyodontes, Modiola (Brachidontes), Modiolus (Brachydontes), Volsella (Brachidontes)
Parent taxon: Mytilinae according to G. Rosenberg 2005
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dartevelle and Freneix 1957, Devries 2019, Dockery 1982, El Qot 2006, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Gordillo 1991, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Popenoe 1937, Russell and Landes 1937, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Adulini, Aulacomyini, Choromytilus, Crenomytilini, Ischadium, Mytella, Mytilini, Mytilosootus, Mytilus, Nodomytilus, Perna, Perumytilus, Semimodiola, Semimytilus, Septifer
Subtaxa: Brachidontes (Aeidimytilus) Brachidontes (Arcomytilus) Brachidontes (Austromytilus) Brachidontes (Brachidontes) Brachidontes (Hormomya) Brachidontes (Scolimytilus) Brachidontes adamsianus Brachidontes alabamensis Brachidontes alabamiensis Brachidontes andinus Brachidontes bifurcatus Brachidontes blanckenhorni Brachidontes domingensis Brachidontes erosa Brachidontes exustus Brachidontes mississippiensis Brachidontes modiolus Brachidontes ornatissimus Brachidontes pectinatus Brachidontes semilaevis Brachidontes toechophora Brachidontes ustulatus Brachidontes vineyardensis Brachyodontes charmesi Brachyodontes convolutus Modiolus (Brachydontes) olequahensis Volsella (Brachidontes) dichotoma
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (7 collections), Australia (10), the Bahamas (2), Bermuda (8), Chile (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Eritrea (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (3), Panama (3), Spain (2), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (22: California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (3)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (3), Trinidad and Tobago (13), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Chile (1), Egypt (3), Indonesia (2), Japan (1), Panama (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California, Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Mexico (2), Romania (1), United States (6: Alaska, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (1), Italy (1), Japan (7), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Peru (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (110: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of Belgium (2), China (1), Denmark (1), France (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (35: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (10), Bolivia (2), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (2), Canada (2: Alberta), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Cuba (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (3), France (1), India (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (12), Jordan (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (72: Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (3), Kenya (3), Tanzania (1), Yemen (12)
Total: 451 collections including 488 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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