Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Full reference: N. D. Newell. 1942. Lower Paleozoic pelecypods: Mytilacea. University of Kansas Publications 10(2):1-115
Parent taxon: Mytilidae according to A. F. Sterren and G. A. Cisterna 2010
See also Hoare 1961 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Adipicola, Amygdalum, Antetrichomya, Arcomytilus, Arcoperna, Arcuatula, Arcuatulinae, Arvella, Aulacomya, Bathymodiolinae, Bathymodiolus, Botulina, Botulopa, Botulopsis, Brachiodontes, Ciboticola, Coxesia, 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, Vulcanidas, Xenomytilinae, Xenostrobus
Subtaxa: Volsellina areiensis Volsellina carinata Volsellina equatorialis Volsellina heywoodi Volsellina ornatissima Volsellina subelliptica Volsellina transparens Volsellina yunnanensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (14 collections), Brazil (1), China (1), Italy (20), Pakistan (1), United States (2: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of Peru (1), United States (6: Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri)
Total: 46 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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