Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Parent taxon: Mytilinae according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Bohm 1926, Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Mikkelsen 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1925
Sister taxa: Adulini, Aulacomyini, Brachidontes, Choromytilus, Crenomytilini, Ischadium, Mytella, Mytilini, Mytilosootus, Mytilus, Nodomytilus, Perumytilus, Semimodiola, Semimytilus, Septifer
Subtaxa: Perna (Perna) Perna bosniaca Perna excavata Perna heberti Perna kerguelensis Perna magellanica Perna meleagrinoides Perna nishiyamai Perna perna Perna rimosa Perna texana Perna texanus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Morocco (3 collections), Namibia (3), New Zealand (1), South Africa (3)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), New Zealand (2), South Africa (3), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Austria (1), France (1), French Southern Territories (3), Indonesia (2), New Zealand (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Peru (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (1), Japan (1), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Spain (1), United States (4: California, North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 43 collections including 44 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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