Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Synonym: Aucella Keyserling 1846
Parent taxon: Buchiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Marwick 1953, Sepkoski 2002 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxa: Allobuchia, Anningella, Aucellina, Australobuchia, Bittneria, Eobuchiinae, Hokonuia, Malayomaorica, Marwickiella, Paraucellina, Sichuania
Subtaxa: Aucella bononiensis Aucella concentrica Aucella crassa Aucella fischeri Aucella indigenalis Aucella krotovi Aucella lahuseni Aucella nuciformia Aucella occidentalis Aucella piriformis Aucella spitiensis Aucella subokensis Aucella weerthi Buchia arcuata Buchia bronni Buchia concentrica Buchia crassicollis Buchia elderensis Buchia elongata Buchia erringtoni Buchia extensa Buchia fischeriana Buchia inflata Buchia keyserlingi Buchia mosquensis Buchia okensis Buchia pacifica Buchia piochii Buchia plicata Buchia rugosa Buchia terebratuloides Buchia tolmatschowi Buchia trigonoides Buchia uncitoides Buchia volgensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Canada (47: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (5), Germany (1), Greenland (41), Madagascar (1), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (115), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (22), United States (106: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (3), Azerbaijan (2), Canada (19: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (6), Cuba (6), Greenland (77), Indonesia (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (20), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (37), the United Kingdom (1), United States (113: Alaska, California, Oregon)
Total: 644 collections including 1061 occurrences
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