Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Alternative spellings: Crassatella (Anthonia), Crassatella (Anthonya)
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:57-217
Parent taxon: Crassatellidae according to D. G. Lazo and S. E. Damborenea 2011
See also Abbass 1962, Aouissi et al. 2022, Hayami 1975 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Crassatellinae, Eucrassatella, Incatina, Pachythaerus, Ptychomyinae, Scambulinae, Spissatella
Subtaxa: Anthonya cultriformis Anthonya jarai Anthonya mifunensis Crassatella (Anthonia) awadi
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (5 collections), Egypt (1), India (2), Japan (34), New Zealand (8), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: California)
Total: 56 collections including 57 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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