Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parent taxon: Caestocorbulinae according to R. L. Squires and L. R. Saul 2004
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxon: Parmicorbula
Subtaxa: Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) Caestocorbula (Caestocorbula) Caestocorbula allisoni Caestocorbula angustata Caestocorbula attina Caestocorbula aura Caestocorbula cavus Caestocorbula clarendonensis Caestocorbula crassiplica Caestocorbula fossata Caestocorbula gujaratensis Caestocorbula henckeliusiana Caestocorbula kubera Caestocorbula murchisonii Caestocorbula subtumida Caestocorbula twiningi Caestocorbula wailesiana
Ecology: stationary infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Belgium (1 collection), France (20)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), France (1), India (4), Japan (7), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (113: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Yemen (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), India (3), Israel (15), Japan (3), Lebanon (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), United States (250: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Portugal (11)
Total: 455 collections including 540 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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