Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Parent taxon: Tellininae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Abranda, Aenona, Agnomyax, Angulus, Arcopagella, Arcopaginula, Arcopagiopsis, Clathrotellina, Hemimetis, Hercodon, Jactellina, Laciolina, Linearis, Liothyris, Macomona, Obtellina, Palaeomoera, Pharaonella, Phylloda, Pinguitellina, Pistris, Pseudarcopagia, Punipagia, Quadrans, Quidnipagus, Scutarcopagia, Semelangulus, Solyma, Strigilla, Tampaella, Tellidora, Tellinides, Tellipiura, Tonganaella
Subtaxa: Tellinimera kauffmani Tellinimera scitula
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta), India (1), United States (98: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 105 collections including 141 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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