Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Alternative spelling: Modiola (Amygdalum)
Parent taxon: Mytilidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Lamprell and Healy 1998, Maxwell 1992, Mikkelsen 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Skwarko 1994, Todd 2001 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Adipicola, Antetrichomya, Arcomytilus, Arcoperna, Arcuatula, Arcuatulinae, Arvella, Aulacomya, Bathymodiolinae, Bathymodiolus, Botulina, Botulopa, Botulopsis, Brachiodontes, Ciboticola, Coxesia, Crenomytilus, Cuneolus, Dacrydium, Eyrena, Falcimytilus, Fluviolanatus, Geukensia, Hilgardella, Inoperna, Lecompteus, Lioberus, Lithophaga, Lithophaginae, Lycettia, Mauricia, Modiolaria, Modiolatus, Modiolinae, Modiolus, Musculista, Mytilaster, Mytilinae, Mytiloconcha, Phthonia, Promytilus, Rhomboidella, Stavelia, Trichomusculus, Trichomya, Volsella, Volsellina, Vulcanidas, Xenomytilinae, Xenostrobus
Subtaxa: Amygdalum (Modiolula) Amygdalum barbatiaeformis Amygdalum progoensis Amygdalum simplex
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Italy (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (4), the United Kingdom (3)
• Miocene of Belgium (8), Germany (9), Indonesia (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (3), Poland (4)
• Oligocene of Belgium (3), Denmark (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (4)
• Cretaceous of Japan (2)
Total: 52 collections including 53 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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