Tribe Meretricini Gray 1847 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

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

Sister taxa: Aeora, Cytherea, Cytheriopsis, Eomeretrix, Grateloupia, Meretrissa, Meretrix, Resatrix, Tivela, Tivelina

Subtaxa: Clementiina Cyclinina Gemmina Meretricina Petricolina Samarangiina Sunettina Turtoniina

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (2), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (1), Djibouti (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Greece (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Japan (6), Kenya (2), Mexico (8), Morocco (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (6), South Africa (2), Turkey (1), United States (83: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2), Yemen (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (1), India (1), Indonesia (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Pakistan (4), Panama (1), Peru (2), the Philippines (2), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (18: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (6)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Brazil (6), Colombia (31), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (7), France (1), Haiti (1), India (6), Indonesia (4), Iran (2), Iraq (1), Japan (25), Mexico (12), Pakistan (6), Panama (67), Peru (5), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Somalia (5), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (59: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (20)

• Neogene of Chile (1)

• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (3), Peru (4), Puerto Rico (8), United States (15: California), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Colombia (2), Japan (8), the Netherlands Antilles (3), Panama (2), Peru (15), the United Kingdom (2), United States (19: Alabama, California, South Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (4)

• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), United States (251: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (1)

Total: 833 collections including 981 occurrences

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