Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Parent taxon: Tellinidae according to S. Schneider et al. 2005
See also Freneix et al. 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acorylus, Ameritella, Arcopagia, Arcopagiinae, Barytellina, Cymatoica, Florimetis, Fragilia, Idatellina, Lavignon, Lutricola, Macoma, Macominae, Maera, Merisca, Metis, Nelltia, Peiricola, Serratina, Sourimis, Strigillinae, Tellina, Tellina obruta, Tellininae
Subtaxa: Gastrana abildgaardiana Gastrana fragilis Gastrana laminosa
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Namibia (1), South Africa (8), Turkey (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Italy (3), South Africa (3), the United Kingdom (7)
• Miocene of Algeria (8), Austria (2), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (3), Morocco (2), Poland (1), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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