Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Alternative spellings: Mactra (Spisula), Spissula
Parent taxon: Mactridae according to H. Moths et al. 2010
See also Adegoke 1977, Bohm 1926, Clark and Arnold 1923, Durham 1944, Glenn 1904, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hendy 2021, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 1976, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1931, Olsson 1967, Packard 1916, Schneider et al. 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1987, Uozumi 1955, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Wienrich 1999
Sister taxa: Darcinia, Darininae, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactropsis, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Rangia, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon
Subtaxa: Mactra (Spisula) sammamishensis Spisula (Austromactra) Spisula (Cymbophora) Spisula (Eomactra) Spisula (Notospisula) Spisula (Ruellia) Spisula (Spisula) Spisula (Spisulona) Spisula (Stereomactra) Spisula arcuata Spisula brombachensis Spisula callistaeformis Spisula compressa Spisula craspedota Spisula decisa Spisula dernburgi Spisula elliptica Spisula hannibali Spisula jacksonensis Spisula obtruncata Spisula paralis Spisula parilis Spisula praetenuis Spisula rappahannockensis Spisula semisulcata Spisula sookensis Spisula sorachiensis Spisula subcuneata Spisula subtruncata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Iceland (2), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (5), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Belgium (8), the Dominican Republic (1), Iceland (7), Italy (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (12: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (12), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Germany (16), Greece (2), Italy (1), Japan (8), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Panama (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (52: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene of Japan (3), the Russian Federation (3), United States (35: Alaska, California, Florida, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (3), Japan (3), Nigeria (5), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (112: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 377 collections including 453 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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