Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae
Parent taxon: Trapezidae according to T. Matsubara et al. 2010
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Coralliophaga, Corbiculopsis, Glossocardia, Langvophorus, Pseudopleurophorus, Straelenotrapezium, Tortucardia, Libitina, Kitsonia, Lithophagella, Cypricardia
Subtaxa: Trapezium (Neotrapezium) Trapezium (Schedotrapezium) Trapezium auberti Trapezium claibornense Trapezium daviesi Trapezium diversicostulatum Trapezium insepultum Trapezium lycetti Trapezium oblongum Trapezium sublaevigatum Trapezium subtriangulum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Japan (3), Kenya (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (2), Tonga (2), United States (3: Hawaii)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1)
• Miocene of Japan (8)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (1), India (1), Japan (6), United States (6: Alabama, California)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (5)
• Jurassic of France (2)
• Triassic of Jordan (1)
Total: 50 collections including 52 occurrences
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