Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Parent taxon: Mytiloidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Hickman 2023
Sister taxa: Mytilidae, Septiferidae, Sootryenella
Subtaxa: Crenella Crenellinae Musculinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec), Cayman Islands (1), Costa Rica (2), Egypt (1), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Greenland (10), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (3), Panama (1), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (23: Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Chile (2), Costa Rica (5), Ecuador (2), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), Mexico (2), Panama (13), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), France (1), French Southern Territories (2), Germany (3), Iran (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (20), Poland (5), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (11), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (12: Alaska, Florida, Oregon), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), France (3), Hungary (1), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (21: Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Australia (2), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (16: Alabama, California, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Denmark (6), Greenland (1), Mexico (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (2: Alaska, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Canada (3: Alberta), Cuba (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (4), Jordan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), New Zealand (4), the Russian Federation (15), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (258: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (6), Germany (5), Greenland (1), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Somalia (4), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (18), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 621 collections including 705 occurrences