Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Parent taxon: Astartinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Cox et al. 1969, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Astarte, Astartopis, Coelastarte, Gonilia, Megapraeconia, Notoastarte, Parisiella, Prorokia, Seendia, Sita, Yabea
Subtaxa: Nicaniella (Nicaniella) Nicaniella (Trautscholdia) Nicaniella communis Nicaniella incae
Type: Astarte communis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (5)
• Jurassic of China (3), France (11), Germany (34), Greenland (1), India (106), Iran (3), Madagascar (1), Morocco (9), New Zealand (1), Peru (2), Poland (1), Portugal (84), Romania (1), Spain (57), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (44), Yemen (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Peru (1)
Total: 375 collections including 422 occurrences
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