Vaugonia Crickmay 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae

Alternative spelling: Myophorella (Vaugonia)

Parent taxon: Vaugoniinae according to E. PĂ©rez et al. 2008

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Fleming 1987, Melville 1956, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Vaugonia (Hijitrigonia) Vaugonia (Vaugonia) Vaugonia angulata Vaugonia clythia Vaugonia detrita Vaugonia doroschini Vaugonia flecta Vaugonia flexicostata Vaugonia goodalli Vaugonia gottschei Vaugonia hauchcornei Vaugonia hectorleanzai Vaugonia imlayi Vaugonia kobayashii Vaugonia obliqua Vaugonia oregonensis Vaugonia substriata Vaugonia tripartita Vaugonia utahensis Vaugonia vancouverensis Vaugonia vcostata Vaugonia veronica Vaugonia yukonensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Antarctica (7 collections), Argentina (3), Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (30), Cuba (1), France (7), Greenland (1), India (7), Japan (13), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (23), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (84: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 212 collections including 227 occurrences

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