Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Phaseolidae

Synonym: Lametilidae Allen and Sanders 1973

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

See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Nevesskaja 2009 and Spencer et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Cadomiidae, Isoarcidae, Malletiidae, Nuculanidae, Palaeoneilidae, Polidevciidae, Sareptidae, Saturnidae, Yoldiidae, Zealedidae

Subtaxa: Lametila Phaseolinae Phaseolus Prelametila Siliculinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Maastrichtian chalk (Stevns Klint) fauna (Cretaceous of Denmark)

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