Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Synonym: Ceromya Agassiz 1842 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Ceratomyidae according to Y. S. Repin 2013
See also Aberhan 2004, Bouchet et al. 2010, Kiessling et al. 2011, Scholz et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Ceratomyinae, Ceromyella, Gresslya, Makoiamya, Myopholadinae, Ochotomya, Pholadomyocardia, Pteromya
Subtaxa: Ceratomya concentrica Ceratomya excentrica Ceratomya goniophora Ceratomya leptoglypta Ceratomya obtusa Ceratomya persica Ceratomya petricosa Ceratomya pittieri Ceratomya striata Ceratomya telluris Ceratomya wimmisensis Ceromya (Ceromyopsis) Ceromya aequilateralis Ceromya concentrica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Chile (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (4), China (7), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (9), France (14), Germany (1), Greenland (7), Hungary (1), India (6), Iran (5), Italy (1), Jordan (14), Kenya (10), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (15), Mexico (5), Portugal (16), Saudi Arabia (30), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (8), Spain (24), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (3), Tunisia (39), the United Kingdom (10), Vietnam (1), Yemen (11)
Total: 251 collections including 290 occurrences
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