Tribe Crassadomini Waller 1993 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae

Full reference: T.R. Waller. 1993. The evolution of "Chlamys" (Mollusca: Bivalva: Pectinidae) in the tropical western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. American Malacological Bulletin 10(2):195-249

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000 and Waller 1993

Sister taxa: Fortipectinini, Mimachlamydini, Pedini, Pedum

Subtaxa: Caribachlamys

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Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Haiti (1)

• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3)

• Miocene of Brazil (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Panama (1)

Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences

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