Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae

Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314

Parent taxon: Trapezium according to R. B. Stewart 1930

See also Cox et al. 1969 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Trapezium (Neotrapezium), Trapezium auberti, Trapezium claibornense, Trapezium daviesi, Trapezium diversicostulatum, Trapezium insepultum, Trapezium lycetti, Trapezium oblongum, Trapezium sublaevigatum, Trapezium subtriangulum

Subtaxa: Trapezium (Schedotrapezium) carinatum

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Type: Trapezium carinatum

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Texas Flat (Cretaceous of California)

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