Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Synonym: Ceromyopsis de Loriol 1897 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Ceratomyopsidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Aberhan 2010, Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Tellurimya
Subtaxa: Ceratomyopsis arabica Ceratomyopsis somaliensis Ceratomyopsis striata Ceratomyopsis undulata Ceromyopsis aequatorialis Ceromyopsis helvetica
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (1 collection), Ethiopia (2), France (5), Germany (1), India (16), Iran (2), Jordan (9), Kenya (5), Madagascar (5), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (37), Somalia (9), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (26), the United Kingdom (2), Yemen (13)
Total: 137 collections including 144 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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