Nanonavis Stewart 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae

Alternative spelling: Parallelodon (Nanonavis)

Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314

Parent taxon: Grammatodontinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Anderson 1958, Kendrick and Vartak 2007, Reinhart 1937, Sepkoski 2002 and Stewart 1930

Sister taxa: Aptolinter, Catellini, Cryptochasma, Grammatodon, Grammatodontini, Nemodon, Nemodontini, Notogrammatodon, Pseudogrammatodon, Pseudomacrodon, Stenocolpus, Torinosucatella, Obliquidon, Nordenskjoeldia

Subtaxa: Parallelodon (Nanonavis) bremneri Parallelodon (Nanonavis) brewerianus Parallelodon (Nanonavis) carinatus Parallelodon (Nanonavis) cumshewensis Parallelodon (Nanonavis) nanainoenis Parallelodon (Nanonavis) simillima Parallelodon (Nanonavis) whiteavesi

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Type: Grammatodon carinatus

Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Paleocene of United States (1: California collection)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), France (2), Germany (1), Israel (10), Japan (15), Jordan (2), Libya (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (41: California)

• Jurassic of Portugal (1), Vietnam (1)

Total: 83 collections including 91 occurrences

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