Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Parent taxon: Pharidae according to G. Rosenberg et al. 2006
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Moore 2003, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Packard 1922, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Cultellinae, Cultellus, Ensis, Novaculininae, Pharinae, Rzehakiinae, Siliquinae
Subtaxa: Siliqua alta Siliqua kingi Siliqua lucida Siliqua oregonia Siliqua patula Siliqua radiata Siliqua simondsi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (1 collection), Mexico (1), Thailand (2), United States (30: California, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (2), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (8: California, Oregon)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (15: California)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (3), United States (12: Alaska, California)
• Oligocene of France (10)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of France (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), United States (1: Minnesota)
Total: 106 collections including 109 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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