Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Synonym: Hippagus Lea 1833
Parent taxon: Crenellidae according to C. S. Hickman 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Dockery 1982, Durham 1944, Glenn 1904, Hertlein and Grant 1972, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1976, Moore 1983, Nagao 1928, Sepkoski 2002, Spencer et al. 2004, Stilwell 1998, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wood 1850
Sister taxa: Crenellinae, Musculinae
Subtaxa: Crenella cocentrica Crenella decussata Crenella elegantula Crenella elliptica Crenella fenestra Crenella glandula Crenella gubernatoria Crenella inflata Crenella inflata Crenella isocardioides Crenella kannoi Crenella latifrons Crenella maylandensis Crenella porterensis Crenella santana Crenella serica Crenella striatocostata Crenella subfornicata Crenella virida Crenella washingtonensis Hippagus verticordius
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Quebec collection), Costa Rica (2), Greenland (2), the Netherlands (3), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (12: California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Chile (2), Costa Rica (5), Ecuador (2), Mexico (2), Panama (13), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Germany (1), Panama (20), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (9: Alaska, Florida, Oregon), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (18: Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Japan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Mississippi, Oregon)
• Paleocene of Denmark (5), Greenland (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta), Cuba (1), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (4), Mexico (3), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (257: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 418 collections including 471 occurrences
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