Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae

Parent taxon: Mactridae according to J. Marwick 1960

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Darcinia, Darininae, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactropsis, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Rangia, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Spisula, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon

Subtaxa: Longimactra elongata Longimactra flemingi

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Type: Longimactra elongata

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at S127/f574 - Livingstone [Livingstone Sand, Tapui Glauconitic Sst] (Eocene of New Zealand)

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