Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Alternative spellings: Crassatella (Eucrassatella), Crassatellites (Eucrassatella), Eucrassinella
Parent taxon: Crassatellidae according to K. S. Collins et al. 2014
See also Barrios 1960, Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, DuBar 1958, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 2003, Mukerjee 1939, Perrilliat 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Uozumi 1955, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Anthonya, Crassatellinae, Incatina, Pachythaerus, Ptychomyinae, Scambulinae, Spissatella
Subtaxa: Eucrassatella (Eucrassatella) Eucrassatella (Hybolophus) Eucrassatella ampla Eucrassatella aphrodina Eucrassatella decipiens Eucrassatella eupontica Eucrassatella kingicoloides Eucrassatella marshalli Eucrassatella maudensis Eucrassatella montserratensis Eucrassatella oblonga Eucrassatella pulchra Eucrassatella rostrata Eucrassatella scopalveus Eucrassatella wilckensi
Type: Crassatella kingicola
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Costa Rica (1), Panama (1), United States (13: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (7), Ecuador (1), India (1), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (11: California, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Australia (15), Colombia (41), Ecuador (8), Grenada (3), India (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (33), Peru (5), the Russian Federation (4), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (29: California, Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (14)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: California), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Australia (2), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (4)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 240 collections including 256 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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