Sanguinolaria Lamarck 1799 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae

Alternative spelling: Tellina (Sanguinolaria)

Parent taxon: Sanguinolariinae according to W. P. Woodring 1982

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Durham 1944, Gabb 1864, Olsson 1931 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Psammotellina, Soletellina

Subtaxa: Sanguinolaria (Psammotaea) Sanguinolaria (Sanguinolaria) Sanguinolaria alata Sanguinolaria alouatta Sanguinolaria caudata Sanguinolaria tumbezana

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2 collections), Ecuador (1), Mexico (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Panama (1)

• Oligocene of Peru (2)

• Eocene of Japan (1), the United Kingdom (4)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)

Total: 17 collections including 18 occurrences

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