Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Synonym: Capsella Deshayes 1855
Parent taxon: Psammobiidae according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Vokes 1980, Wienrich 1999 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Capsinae, Garinae, Heterodonax, Nuttallia, Psammobiinae, Psammotella, Sanguinolariinae, Sinopsammobia
Subtaxa: Gari (Amphipsammus) Gari (Gari) Gari (Garum) Gari (Gobraeus) Gari (Grammatomya) Gari (Kermadysmea) Gari (Psammobella) Gari (Psammobia) Gari (Psammocola) Gari (Psammodonax) Gari (Psammoica) Gari (Psammotaena) Gari aequalis Gari brouwersae Gari maculosa Gari martini Gari olequahensis Gari squamosa Gari weinkauffi
Type: Gari vulgaris
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Chile (3), Djibouti (2), France (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), the Philippines (1), South Africa (3), United States (17: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1), United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Belgium (5), India (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (7: California, Virginia)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (2), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (2), India (3), Indonesia (5), Italy (3), Moldova (4), New Zealand (4), Panama (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), United States (11: California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), France (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Turkey (1), United States (5: Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (5), Egypt (2), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Panama (5), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (15), the United Kingdom (6), United States (94: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), China (1), Denmark (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Alabama, Alaska, California)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), France (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (2), Switzerland (7)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 309 collections including 336 occurrences
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