Family Corbiculidae Gray 1847 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae

Parent taxon: Corbiculacea according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Squires 1999 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxon: Limnocyrenidae

Subtaxa: Acyrena Baidunoconcha Batissa Corbicula Corbiculina Corbiculinae Cyrenodonax Cyrenorita Dentonia Ditypodon Eocallista Filosina Fulpia Fulpioides Nemetia Neocorbicula Pharodina Polymesoda Sogamosa Tetoria Veloritina Villorita

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (1), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Egypt (5), India (1), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Sudan (2), Tanzania (1), Thailand (1), United States (8: California, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (2), Mexico (1)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (9), Japan (1), Malawi (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Colombia (1), France (1), Greece (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (4), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (5), United States (3: California)

• Oligocene of Belgium (5), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (12), Germany (5), Hungary (2), Iran (1), Japan (17), Myanmar (1), Panama (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (6: Alaska, California, Washington)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Greenland (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (21), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (20: Alabama, Alaska, California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Argentina (18), Australia (1), Belgium (2), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: California, Texas)

• Paleogene of Japan (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (13), Canada (3: Alberta), Chile (2), China (5), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (29), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (84: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), Japan (1)

• Jurassic of Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Cuba (1), France (11), Japan (7), Kenya (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (2), Portugal (1), Somalia (3), Tunisia (24), the United Kingdom (7), Yemen (7)

• Triassic of United States (1: North Carolina)

Total: 448 collections including 547 occurrences

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