Tutcheria Cox 1946 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1946. Tutcheria and Pseudopis, new lamellibranch genera from the Lias. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 27:34-48

Parent taxon: Carditamerinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cossmannella, Cretocardia, Fenestricardita, Goossensia, Izumicardia

Subtaxa: Tutcheria aalensis Tutcheria cingulata Tutcheria densestriata Tutcheria elegantula Tutcheria heberti Tutcheria itoi Tutcheria nortonensis Tutcheria paxfordensis Tutcheria richardsoni Tutcheria slatteri Tutcheria submulticostata

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Type: Cardium submulticostatum

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (2 collections), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (4), Italy (4), Japan (1), Peru (2), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (11)

• Triassic of Argentina (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), Iran (1), the Netherlands (2), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (16: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)

Total: 58 collections including 67 occurrences

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