Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Meretricinae according to W. P. Woodring 1982
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Todd 2001
Sister taxa: Aeora, Cytherea, Cytheriopsis, Eomeretrix, Grateloupia, Meretricini, Meretrissa, Meretrix, Resatrix, Tivelina
Subtaxa: Tivela (Comus) Tivela (Pachydesma) Tivela (Planitivela) Tivela (Tivela) Tivela cliffensis Tivela kelloggensis Tivela merriami Tivela packardi Tivela trigonalis Tivela vaquerosensis
Type: Venus tripla
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Kenya (2), Mexico (6), Mozambique (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (8), United States (29: California), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), South Africa (4), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (7: California), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (2), Indonesia (1), Panama (11), United States (20: California)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (14: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of United States (1: California)
Total: 132 collections including 141 occurrences
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