Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Alternative spelling: Synclonema
Parent taxon: Syncyclonematinae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
See also Anderson 1945, Anderson 1958, Cox 1924, Dhondt 1971, Kosnik 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Skwarko 1967 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Syncyclonema archeri Syncyclonema cretacea Syncyclonema gamsensis Syncyclonema gibsonia Syncyclonema greppini Syncyclonema haeggi Syncyclonema hagenowi Syncyclonema haggi Syncyclonema haldonensis Syncyclonema hallii Syncyclonema kingi Syncyclonema latum Syncyclonema nilsoni Syncyclonema operculiformis Syncyclonema semiplicata Syncyclonema travisanus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Netherlands (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Australia (3), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Alberta), China (2), Colombia (2), Czechia (1), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (7), Greenland (1), India (3), Jamaica (2), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (3), North Atlantic (1), Poland (8), Serbia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (298: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Singapore (1)
Total: 365 collections including 437 occurrences
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