Mactromya Agassiz 1843 (clam)

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

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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

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