Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Alternative spelling: Crassatella (Bathytormus)
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: Crassatellinae according to G. L. Wingard 1993
See also Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Crassatella, Crassatina, Marvacrassatella, Salaputium, Talabrica, Tilicrassatella, Uddenia
Subtaxa: Bathytormus alaeformis Bathytormus clarkensis Bathytormus flexurus Bathytormus juanadiazus Bathytormus protexta Bathytormus protextus Bathytormus pteropsis Bathytormus sinus Crassatella (Bathytormus) schmidlini
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (3 collections), France (2), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (106: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Maryland)
• Paleocene of United States (26: Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of India (1), Libya (1), Mozambique (1), United States (54: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 197 collections including 203 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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