Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spelling: Ventricoloidea
Parent taxon: Venus according to H. Moths et al. 2010
See also Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Pugaczewska 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Venus (Mioclausinella), Venus (Venus), Venus anceps, Venus arcotensis, Venus arroyoensis, Venus biplicata, Venus brioniana, Venus chilensis, Venus cleryana, Venus collinium, Venus conformis, Venus corella, Venus crenatula, Venus cythereaeformis, Venus deleta, Venus delicatula, Venus depressa, Venus ebergenyii, Venus eximia, Venus fallaciosa, Venus foveolata, Venus geslini, Venus inopinata, Venus insula, Venus kennerlyi, Venus lenticularis, Venus martini, Venus mekranica, Venus mitsuiana, Venus nux, Venus petricosa, Venus pseudoscalaris, Venus quadrata, Venus retisculpta, Venus sulcata, Venus tetrahedra, Venus turgescens, Venus vespertina, Venus victoriana, Venus virginiana
Subtaxa: Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (4 collections), Spain (2), Taiwan (2)
• Pliocene of Belgium (3), Spain (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (10), Austria (2), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (1), Germany (51), Hungary (1), Italy (5), Morocco (6), the Netherlands (2), Poland (7), Romania (3), Slovakia (2)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1)
Total: 106 collections including 110 occurrences