Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Parent taxon: Opinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Fischer 1969, Frech 1912, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Heteropis, Opis, Opisoma, Prosocoelus, Seebachia, Trigonastarte, Trigonopis
Subtaxa: Coelopis (Coelopis) Coelopis (Cryptocoelopis) Coelopis langrunensis Coelopis lunulata Coelopis tebagaensis
Type: Cardita lunulata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (5), India (4), Israel (1), Japan (2), Saudi Arabia (17), Spain (36)
• Triassic of China (5), Indonesia (1), Iran (3)
Total: 77 collections including 81 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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