Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sportellidae
Genus Sportella is listed as an extant species in Gofas, et al. 2001 (ref. 33943)
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Parent taxon: Sportellidae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Glenn 1904, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Angusticardo, Anisodonta, Basterotia, Cerullia, Ensitellops, Fabella, Fulcrella, Grundensia, Hindsiella, Isoconcha, Vokesella
Subtaxa: Sportella bezanconi Sportella callosa Sportella fabula Sportella gregorioi Sportella leura Sportella oblonga Sportella patuxentia Sportella pelex Sportella petropolitana Sportella recussa Sportella variabilis Sportella whitfieldi Sportella yamanii
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (6: North Carolina, South Carolina collections)
• Pliocene of United States (3: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Australia (2), United States (16: Florida, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of United States (10: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Alabama, Texas)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 47 collections including 60 occurrences
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