Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Alternative spelling: Crassatella (Eriphyla)
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:57-217
Parent taxon: Eriphylinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, da Silva Forti 1969, Sepkoski 2002 and Tashiro and Kozai 1982
Sister taxa: Amphiaraus, Astartemya, Crassatellina, Disparilia, Eriphylopsis, Freiastarte, Herzogina, Lirodiscus
Subtaxa: Eriphyla (Dozyia) Eriphyla (Eriphyla) Eriphyla (Miyakoella) Eriphyla agrioensis Eriphyla argentina Eriphyla forbesiana Eriphyla lapidis Eriphyla lenticularis Eriphyla ovoides Eriphyla umbonata Eriphyla veatchii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (12 collections)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (9), Argentina (23), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Chile (13), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (1), Gabon (1), Germany (2), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (35), Mozambique (2), New Zealand (16), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (26: California, North Carolina)
• Jurassic of Chile (3), France (1), Greenland (24), Poland (4)
Total: 184 collections including 192 occurrences
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