Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Alternative combination: Tellina magna
Synonyms: Macoma (Psammacoma) elliptica Lamarck 1818, Macoma elliptica Lamarck 1818, Tellina acuta Wood 1815, Tellina elliptica Lamarck 1818, Tellina floriana Hilber 1879
Belongs to Laciolina according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Harzhauser and Mandic 2001 and Harzhauser et al. 2011
Sister taxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Italy (1)
• Miocene of Germany (11), the Netherlands (2), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Hungary (1)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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