Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Synonym: Posidonomya Bronn 1835 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Posidoniidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clapham 2015 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amonotis, Bositra, Caenodiotis, Didymotis, Ellesmerella, Magnolobia, Multisidonia, Posidonotis, Pterohalobia, Steinmannia, Veldidenella
Subtaxa: Posidonia becheri Posidonia blatchleyi Posidonia daytonensis Posidonia dianensis Posidonia girtyi Posidonia jacksoni Posidonia madisonensis Posidonia minuta Posidonia olenekensis Posidonia semiundata Posidonia somaliensis Posidonia stella Posidonia wengensis Posidonomya hausmanni
Type: Posidonia minuta
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta, British Columbia collections)
• Jurassic of Chile (1), Somalia (3), United States (4: California), Yemen (4)
• Triassic of Bulgaria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (49), Hungary (3), Italy (24), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Nepal (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Thailand (2), United States (9: Alaska, California, Nevada), Vietnam (3)
• Permian of China (5), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (6)
• Westphalian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of China (2), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (65), United States (8: Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada, New mexico, Ohio, Virginia)
• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of China (1), Germany (1), Libya (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (2)
Total: 229 collections including 272 occurrences
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