Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Parent taxon: Mactromyidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bathycorbis, Clisocolus, Cordiula, Eolucina, Linetia, Mactromyopsis, Montanaria, Paracyclas, Sexta, Thetironia, Thetis, Unicardium
Subtaxa: Mactromya aequalis Mactromya cardioides Mactromya crassa Mactromya daghaniensis Mactromya groenlandica Mactromya quadrata Mactromya rugosa Mactromya verioti
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (2 collections), the Russian Federation (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Denmark (5), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (10), France (7), Germany (7), Greenland (30), India (13), Iran (1), Jordan (7), Kenya (13), Madagascar (4), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Portugal (13), Saudi Arabia (31), Somalia (9), Spain (66), Tanzania (5), Tunisia (24), the United Kingdom (35), United States (9: Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (3)
• Triassic of Germany (3)
Total: 308 collections including 326 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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