†family Buchiolidae Grimm 1998 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Buchiolidae

Alternative spelling: Buchiolinae

Full reference: M.C. Grimm. 1998. Systematik und Paläoökologie der Buchiolinae nov. subfam. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 118:1-176

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Jagt-Yazykova et al. 2006 and Kříž 2007

Sister taxa: Palaeocardiidae, Praecardiidae

Subtaxa: Buchiola Costacutia Disarnella Glyptohallicardia Levibuchiola Planocardia Porsugenia

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Type: Buchiola

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories and Yukon collections), China (2), Czechia (3), France (2), Germany (21), Poland (2), South Africa (3), Spain (9), United States (8: Nevada, New York)

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 55 collections including 68 occurrences

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