Portlandia Mörch 1857 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae

Alternative spellings: Nuculana (Portlandia), Yoldia (Portlandia)

Parent taxon: Yoldiinae according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000

See also Hayami 1975, Maxwell 1992, Moore 1983, Moore 1984, Richards 1962, Sepkoski 2002, Wienrich 1999 and Woodring 1973

Sister taxa: Megayoldia, Paleyoldia

Subtaxa: Portlandia (Portlandia) Portlandia arctica Portlandia chehalisensis Portlandia glacialis Portlandia impressa Portlandia kakimii Portlandia laudabilis Portlandia rosa

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (27: New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec collections), Greenland (25), Italy (1), Japan (1), Poland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (19: Maine, Vermont)

• Pliocene of Jamaica (3), Japan (3)

• Miocene of Chile (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (8)

• Oligocene of Denmark (2), Germany (1), Japan (16), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (8: Alaska, Washington)

• Eocene of Japan (8), United States (12: California, Oregon)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (3: California)

• Cretaceous of China (1), Denmark (1), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: California)

Total: 166 collections including 174 occurrences

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