Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spelling: Venus (Mercenaria)
Synonyms: Mclelannia Wilson 1983, Mclellania Wilson 1983
Parent taxon: Venerinae according to E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott 2012
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Gardner 1943, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Ward 1992, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wilson 1983
Sister taxa: Antigona, Artena, Callithaca, Chione, Chioneryx, Chionista, Chionopsis, Circomphalus, Clausinella, Dosina, Dosiniini, Globivenus, Humilaria, Iliochione, Irusella, Kuia, Leukoma, Marama, Melosia, Paphonotia, Paraesa, Periglypta, Proxichione, Tapetini, Tawera, Turia, Venerini, Venus, Lirophora, Nioche, Placamen, Austrovenus, Hinemoana, Anomalocardia, Ameghinomya, Timoclea, Bassina
Subtaxa: Mclellania aenigma Mercenaria blakei Mercenaria campechiensis Mercenaria capax Mercenaria cuneata Mercenaria druidi Mercenaria ducatelli Mercenaria erecta Mercenaria gardnerae Mercenaria langdoni Mercenaria mercenaria Mercenaria nannodes Mercenaria permagna Mercenaria plena Mercenaria prodroma Mercenaria tetrica Mercenaria violacea
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (112: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Haiti (1), Japan (6), United States (58: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of Brazil (3), Haiti (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (27), the Russian Federation (1), United States (114: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of United States (3: North Carolina)
Total: 330 collections including 384 occurrences
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