Family Cyrenidae Gray 1840 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cyrenidae

Synonyms: Geloinidae Iredale 1943, Serrilaminulinae Lindholm 1933

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Olsson 1931 and Parker 1982

Sister taxa: Cyrenoididae, Glauconomidae

Subtaxa: Cyrena Polymesodinae Serrilaminula

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Panama (1 collection), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Pliocene of United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Israel (1), Switzerland (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (11: Florida, Georgia)

• Oligocene of Bulgaria (1), Peru (1), Romania (9)

• Eocene of Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), France (1), Greenland (2), Italy (1), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (42)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), China (1), France (2), Germany (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Maryland, New Mexico)

• Jurassic of Greenland (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Italy (3)

Total: 105 collections including 129 occurrences

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