Superfamily Sphaerioidea Deshayes 1854 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida

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

See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006 and Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Dreissenoidea

Subtaxa: Kijidae Sibireconchidae Sphaeriidae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Canada (3: Alberta, Ontario), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), France (2), Germany (2), Greece (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (1), Poland (4), Romania (1), Rwanda (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (16: Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Virginia)

• Blancan of United States (1: Oregon)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Italy (1), Spain (6)

• Pliocene of Croatia (1), Indonesia (1), Spain (3), United States (5: California, Oregon)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Brazil (1), Croatia (2), Germany (3), Greece (1), Italy (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2)

• Oligocene of Panama (2)

• Eocene of France (1), United States (1: Nevada)

• Paleocene of Canada (5: Alberta, Saskatchewan)

• Cretaceous of Canada (16: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (5), France (1), Japan (8), United States (7: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of China (2)

• Triassic of China (1)

Total: 135 collections including 173 occurrences

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