Clisocolus Gabb 1869 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1869. Section II. Cretaceous Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 127-205

Parent taxon: Mactromyidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Cox et al. 1969, Russell and Landes 1937, Sepkoski 2002 and Tashiro and Kozai 1982

Sister taxa: Bathycorbis, Cordiula, Eolucina, Linetia, Mactromya, Mactromyopsis, Montanaria, Paracyclas, Sexta, Thetironia, Thetis, Unicardium

Subtaxa: Clisocolus (Clisocolus) Clisocolus cordatus Clisocolus corrugatus Clisocolus dubius Clisocolus endotrachys Clisocolus indubitus Clisocolus moreauensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta), Cuba (1), Egypt (3), Japan (5), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (68: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)

Total: 83 collections including 85 occurrences

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