Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1866. Section I. Tertiary Invertebrate Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 1-38
Parent taxon: Thyasiridae according to K. Hryniewicz et al. 2017
See also Amano et al. 2019, Hickman 2015 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adontorhina, Axinopsida, Axinopsidinae, Axinulus, Axinus, Cretaxinus, Eothyasira, Genaxinus, Leptaxinus, Parathyasira, Rhacothyas, Storthodon, Tauraxinus, Thyasira, Thyasirinae
Subtaxa: Conchocele bathyaulax Conchocele bisecta Conchocele conradii Conchocele kiritachiensis Conchocele taylori Conchocele townsendi Conchocele yatsuoensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), United States (8: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Japan (5), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Japan (6), the Russian Federation (18), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (3: Alaska, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Japan (8), the Russian Federation (6), United States (28: Alaska, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Japan (10), the Russian Federation (4), United States (10: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4)
Total: 124 collections including 137 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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