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
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 (76: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Washington)
Total: 91 collections including 92 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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