Superfamily Thyasiroidea Dall 1900 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida

Parent taxon: Lucinida according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Donacoidea, Kellioidea, Lucinoidea, Mactromyoidea, Pisidioidea

Subtaxa: Thyasiridae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (5: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Quebec collections), Costa Rica (1), Greenland (5), Iceland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (31: Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Vermont), Yemen (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Chile (3), Colombia (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Japan (5), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (4: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (4: Alaska)

• Miocene of Denmark (1), Germany (4), Japan (7), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (20), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (5: Alaska, Florida, Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Denmark (4), Ecuador (2), Germany (1), Japan (8), the Netherlands (2), Peru (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (8), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (35: Alaska, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (2), Germany (1), Japan (10), Peru (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (21: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Greenland (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4)

• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Antarctica (4), Egypt (1), Japan (8), Libya (1), New Zealand (7), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tunisia (1), United States (14: California, Nebraska, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Germany (1)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

Total: 284 collections including 335 occurrences

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