Bivalvia - Ostreida - Cassianellidae
Parent taxon: Cassianellidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Gugenberger 1935, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Burckhardtia, Hoernesiella, Lilangina, Septihoernesia
Subtaxa: Cassianella ampezzana Cassianella angusta Cassianella angustula Cassianella avicularaeformis Cassianella beyrichii Cassianella bicostata Cassianella carinthiaca Cassianella cordillerana Cassianella decussata Cassianella dieneri Cassianella elegantula Cassianella euglypha Cassianella euglyphoides Cassianella gallensteini Cassianella gravinaensis Cassianella gryphaeata Cassianella johannisboehmi Cassianella katialotica Cassianella launsdorfiensis Cassianella lineata Cassianella lingulata Cassianella nyanangensis Cassianella peruana Cassianella planata Cassianella pseudoavicularis Cassianella robusta Cassianella shastensis Cassianella simplex Cassianella simplex Cassianella sturi Cassianella subeuglypha Cassianella symmetrica Cassianella tenuistria Cassianella verbeeki
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (5 collections)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), Austria (45), Canada (7: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (42), Hungary (13), Indonesia (7), Iran (13), Italy (60), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Singapore (1), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (27: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
Total: 244 collections including 399 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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