Raeta Gray 1853 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anatinellidae

Alternative spellings: Anatina (Raeta), Labiosa (Raeta)

Synonym: Lovellia Mayer-Eymar

Parent taxon: Kymatoxinae according to J. H. Signorelli 2019

See also Anderson 1929, Glenn 1904, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Marks 1951, Moore 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Signorelli and Carter 2016, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Anatina, Kymatox, Pteropsella

Subtaxa: Raeta (Raeta) Raeta (Raetella) Raeta (Raetina) Raeta transmontana Raeta undulata

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (3), Japan (5), Mexico (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), United States (30: California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Colombia (5), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Pakistan (3), United States (4: North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Chile (1), Colombia (7), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Mexico (1), Panama (5), Peru (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene of Panama (2)

• Eocene of Colombia (1)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1)

Total: 94 collections including 98 occurrences

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