Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Synonym: Trichomyinae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979
Parent taxon: Crenellidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Griffin et al. 2008, Moore 1976, Moore 1983 and Spencer et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Crenella, Musculinae
Subtaxa: Crenellini Dacrydiini Fungiacava Gregariella Musculus Rhynchomytilus Solamen Vilasina
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), Cayman Islands (1), Egypt (1), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Greenland (8), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), United States (14: Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (2: California, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), France (1), French Southern Territories (2), Germany (2), Iran (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), Poland (5), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (10), United States (3: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Denmark (1), France (3), Hungary (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of Australia (2), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: California, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (4), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Mexico (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Denmark (1), Jordan (1), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (15), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (6), Germany (5), Greenland (1), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Somalia (4), Tanzania (2), Tunisia (18), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 212 collections including 228 occurrences