Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Synonym: Lanistina Gray 1847
Parent taxon: Crenellinae according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Lamprell and Healy 1998, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Crenellini, Dacrydiini, Fungiacava, Gregariella, Rhynchomytilus, Solamen, Vilasina
Subtaxa: Lanistina arcacea Lanistina corioensis Musculus (Musculus) Musculus (Ryenella) Musculus (Skarlatella) Musculus (Undatimusculus) Musculus balcombei Musculus delicatula Musculus discors Musculus glacialis Musculus kryshtofovitschi Musculus nanulus Musculus nanus Musculus niger Musculus somaliensis Musculus sorgenfreii Musculus viridulus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Greenland (8), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), United States (9: Florida, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (2: California, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), France (1), French Southern Territories (2), Germany (2), Iran (5), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (4), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (10), United States (3: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), France (3), Hungary (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Egypt (1), Hungary (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (9), Jordan (1), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (15), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (6), Germany (5), Greenland (1), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Somalia (4), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (18), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 172 collections including 182 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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