Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Synonym: Posidonomya Bronn 1835 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Posidoniidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Bychkov et al. 1976, Clapham 2015, Kittl 1912 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amonotis, Bositra, Caenodiotis, Didymotis, Ellesmerella, Guerichia, Imposidonia, Magnolobia, Multisidonia, Posidonotis, Pseudodidymotis, Pterohalobia, Steinmannia, Veldidenella
Subtaxa: Posidonia affinis Posidonia alpina Posidonia becheri Posidonia bittneri Posidonia blatchleyi Posidonia christophori Posidonia daytonensis Posidonia dianensis Posidonia ekiatapensis Posidonia elegans Posidonia gemmellaroi Posidonia germari Posidonia gibbosa Posidonia girtyi Posidonia idriana Posidonia jacksoni Posidonia lineolata Posidonia madisonensis Posidonia minuta Posidonia multicostata Posidonia nodosocostata Posidonia obliqua Posidonia obsoletestriata Posidonia olenekensis Posidonia ovalis Posidonia pannonica Posidonia praealpina Posidonia semiundata Posidonia somaliensis Posidonia stella Posidonia subtilis Posidonia triangularis Posidonia wengensis Posidonomya alta Posidonomya backlundi Posidonomya bosniaca Posidonomya devonica Posidonomya fasciata Posidonomya fragosa Posidonomya hausmanni Posidonomya incerta Posidonomya laevis Posidonomya moneta Posidonomya orbicularis Posidonomya pergamena
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Chile (7 collections), Greece (1), Somalia (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: California), Yemen (4)
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Bulgaria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (2), China (43), Germany (1), Hungary (5), India (4), Italy (13), Laos (1), Malaysia (2), Nepal (2), the Russian Federation (10), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: Alaska, California, Nevada)
• Permian of China (5), Italy (1), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (6)
• Namurian of Spain (1)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), China (2), Czechia (3), Germany (1), India (1), the United Kingdom (73), United States (15: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (2), Germany (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (2)
Total: 263 collections including 318 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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