Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Full reference: K. Holdhaus. 1913. The fauna of the Spiti shales, Lamellibranchiata and Gastropoda. Palaeontologia Indica, Series 15 4:397-456
Parent taxon: Pholadomyinae according to J. P. Neves et al. 2014
See also Morris et al. 1991 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Exochorhynchus
Subtaxa: Cosmomya (Cosmomya) Cosmomya (Palaeocosmomya)
Type: Cosmomya egregia
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (7 collections), Brazil (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (9)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 23 collections including 24 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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