Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Parent taxon: Mytilidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Yamani 1982
Sister taxa: Adipicola, Amygdalum, Antetrichomya, Arcomytilus, Arcoperna, Arcuatula, Arcuatulinae, Arvella, Aulacomya, Bathymodiolinae, Bathymodiolus, Botulina, Botulopa, Botulopsis, Brachiodontes, Ciboticola, Coxesia, Crenomytilus, Cuneolus, Dacrydium, Eyrena, 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: Falcimytilus dietrichi Falcimytilus heranirus Falcimytilus nasai Falcimytilus stricapillatus Falcimytilus suprajurensis Falcimytilus tigrensis
Type: Mytilus suprajurensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
• Jurassic of Argentina (9), China (1), Ethiopia (2), Germany (3), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), India (4), Japan (8), Kenya (7), Mexico (1), Saudi Arabia (13), Tanzania (14), Tunisia (9), the United Kingdom (1), Yemen (2)
• Triassic of Japan (4), the Russian Federation (12)
Total: 96 collections including 99 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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