Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Parent taxon: Mactridae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Darcinia, Darininae, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactropsis, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Spisula, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon
Subtaxa: Rangia (Miorangia) Rangia (Praerangia) Rangia cuneata Rangia flexuosa Rangia lecontei
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (42: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of United States (6: Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene of United States (4: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: New Jersey)
Total: 57 collections including 59 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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