Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spelling: Chione (Ameghinomya)
Full reference: H. Ihering. 1907. Les Mollusques fossiles du Tertiare et du Crétacé supérieur de l' Argentine. Anales Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 15(3):1-611
Parent taxon: Chioninae according to D. Pérez et al. 2013
See also Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012, Gordillo 1991, Griffin and Nielsen 2008, Ihering 1907 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Antigona, Artena, Callithaca, Chione, Chioneryx, Chionista, Chionopsis, Circomphalus, Clausinella, Dosina, Dosiniini, Globivenus, Humilaria, Iliochione, Irusella, Kuia, Leukoma, Marama, Melosia, Mercenaria, Paphonotia, Paraesa, Periglypta, Proxichione, Tapetini, Tawera, Turia, Venerini, Venus, Placamen, Anomalocardia, Bassina, Timoclea, Hinemoana, Lirophora, Austrovenus, Nioche
Subtaxa: Ameghinomya antiqua Ameghinomya argentina Ameghinomya camachoi Ameghinomya chiloensis Ameghinomya coquandi Ameghinomya darwini Ameghinomya meridionalis Ameghinomya meridonalis Ameghinomya volckmanni
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (12 collections), Brazil (7), Chile (7), Peru (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (30), Chile (17)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 78 collections including 90 occurrences
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