Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Parent taxon: Mytilinae according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Bohm 1926, Bouchet et al. 2010, Mikkelsen 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980
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 latoconvexa Perna loczyi Perna magellanica Perna meleagrinoides Perna nishiyamai Perna perna Perna rimosa 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 (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (1), Japan (1), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Chile (2), France (2), Hungary (2), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: North Carolina, Texas)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), France (4), Greenland (1), Madagascar (1), Oman (1), Poland (1), Portugal (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of Hungary (1), Indonesia (1)
Total: 70 collections including 71 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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