Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Tapetinae according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Freneix et al. 1988, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Sepkoski 2002, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Cyclorisma, Cyclorismina, Eumarcia, Flaventia, Gomphina, Granicorium, Irus, Katelysia, Legumen, Liocyma, Marcia, Mercimonia, Paphia, Retrotapes, Ruditapes, Sinonia, Textivenus, Venerella, Veneritapes
Subtaxa: Tapes (Myrsopsis) Tapes (Ruditapes) Tapes (Siratoria) Tapes (Tapes) Tapes (Taurotapes) Tapes (Textrix) Tapes aurea Tapes corrugatus Tapes cretacea Tapes dorsatus Tapes hilgardi Tapes lineatum Tapes literatus Tapes perovalis Tapes subundata Tapes texturata Tapes truncata Tapes virginea
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Djibouti (1), Japan (2), Morocco (2), Namibia (4), South Africa (8), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (3)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Greece (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), Pakistan (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Bulgaria (1), Cyprus (4), France (3), Indonesia (5), Iran (9), Japan (7), the Philippines (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Eocene of Italy (1), Japan (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), Libya (1), United States (2: Minnesota)
• Triassic of Egypt (1), Spain (1)
Total: 92 collections including 113 occurrences
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