Subfamily Darininae Signorelli 2011 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae

Full reference: J. H. Signorelli. 2011. New taxonomic names, in A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca). University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4:1-47

Parent taxon: Mactridae according to J. H. Signorelli and J. G. Carter 2016

See also Carter et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Darcinia, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactropsis, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Rangia, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Spisula, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon

Subtaxa: Darina

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Type: Darina

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Las PeƱas [Tubul Fm] (Quaternary of Chile)

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