Coralliophaga Blainville 1824 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae

Parent taxon: Trapeziidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Lamprell and Whitehead 1992 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Corbiculopsis, Glossocardia, Langvophorus, Pseudopleurophorus, Straelenotrapezium, Tortucardia, Trapezium, Kitsonia, Cypricardia, Libitina, Lithophagella

Subtaxa: Coralliophaga (Coralliophaga) Coralliophaga (Oryctomya) Coralliophaga bryani Coralliophaga coralliophaga Coralliophaga cyprinoides

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Haiti (1 collection), Italy (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), the United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (3), Bulgaria (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Moldova (11), Poland (4)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), United States (1: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Ukraine (2), United States (4: Alabama, California)

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Alabama, Maryland)

Total: 48 collections including 57 occurrences

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