Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Alternative combination: Lima subnodosa
Invalid subtaxa: Spondylus fucatus Hanna 1924, Spondylus striatus Packard 1922 [replaced name]
Full reference: E. L. Packard. 1922. New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 13(10):413-462
Belongs to Spondylus according to W. P. Elder 1991
See also Hanna 1924, Packard 1922 and Squires and Demetrion 1990
Sister taxa: Spondylus (Corallospondylus), Spondylus (Spondylus), Spondylus americanus, Spondylus angolensis, Spondylus aratus, Spondylus barbatus, Spondylus batequensis, Spondylus bifrons, Spondylus bostrychites, Spondylus buchi, Spondylus calcaratus, Spondylus calcifer, Spondylus candidus, Spondylus carlosensis, Spondylus cassianus, Spondylus castus, Spondylus chipolanus, Spondylus chiriquiensis, Spondylus ciliatus, Spondylus cliffensis, Spondylus colombiensis, Spondylus concentricus, Spondylus crassicosta, Spondylus crassisquama, Spondylus decussatus, Spondylus dumosus, Spondylus estrallensis, Spondylus fimbriatus, Spondylus fragilis, Spondylus gaderopoides, Spondylus gaederopus, Spondylus gumanomocon, Spondylus hystrix, Spondylus inezana, Spondylus lamellacea, Spondylus lucasi, Spondylus mimus, Spondylus mucronatus, Spondylus multisetosus, Spondylus oballosensis, Spondylus olssoni, Spondylus ornatissimus, Spondylus ostreoides, Spondylus perrini, Spondylus princeps, Spondylus pseudoradula, Spondylus quadricostatus, Spondylus radula, Spondylus raoulensis, Spondylus regius, Spondylus reticulatus, Spondylus rotundatus, Spondylus rugosus, Spondylus scotti, Spondylus sondeianus, Spondylus spectrum, Spondylus spinosus, Spondylus spinosus, Spondylus subplicatus, Spondylus subsquamosus, Spondylus subvelatus, Spondylus tenella, Spondylus tenuispina, Spondylus victoriae, Spondylus wrightianus
Type specimens:
- Spondylus subnodosus: UCMP 12275
- Spondylus fucatus:
- Spondylus striatus: UCMP 12276, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2149, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Campanian marine horizon in the Williams Formation of California.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: California)
Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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