Cuspidaria Dall 1886 (clam)

Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae

Parent taxon: Cuspidariidae according to A. Kaim et al. 2014

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Durham 1944, Eames 1951, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Wienrich 1999 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Boriesia, Cardiomya, Fabagella, Halonympha, Kurodamya, Myonera, Neaera, Paracuspidaria, Plectodon

Subtaxa: Cuspidaria (Cuspidaria) Cuspidaria (Dianocuspidaria) Cuspidaria (Rhinoclama) Cuspidaria (Tergulina) Cuspidaria adelaidensis Cuspidaria alpis Cuspidaria alpiscivicae Cuspidaria attenuata Cuspidaria grandis Cuspidaria grovensis Cuspidaria latesulcata Cuspidaria obesa Cuspidaria persulcata Cuspidaria prima Cuspidaria siliqua Cuspidaria subrostrata Cuspidaria triassica Cuspidaria variabilis Cuspidaria vorbei

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Denmark (2), Germany (6), Italy (2), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Somalia (2)

• Oligocene of Austria (1), Denmark (2), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (2), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (15: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Australia (3), Belgium (2), Denmark (6), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Poland (1), United States (10: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Austria (1), Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (1), Colombia (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (1), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), United States (87: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Germany (1), Hungary (2), Japan (2), Kenya (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)

• Triassic of China (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Japan (3)

Total: 222 collections including 253 occurrences

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