†Mactropsis (clam)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Parent taxon: Mactridae according to K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann 1965
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Darcinia, Darininae, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Rangia, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Spisula, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at PRI 843 (Eocene of Virginia)
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