Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Synonym: Hypogaea Poli 1791
Parent taxon: Pholadinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Glenn 1904, Lamprell and Healy 1998 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Barnea, Clavipholas, Cyrtopleuropsis, Euxinibarneini, Monothyra, Nipponopholas, Pholadini, Zirlona, Zirfaea
Subtaxa: Pholas (Monothyra) Pholas (Pholas) Pholas (Thovana) Pholas arcuata Pholas baudoni Pholas dactylus Pholas intermedia Pholas mackiana Pholas pectorosa Pholas triquetra
Type: Pholas dactylus
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Morocco (3), Peru (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: California, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1)
• Pliocene of Trinidad and Tobago (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Colombia (2), Jamaica (1), Kazakhstan (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Delaware)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Jamaica (1), United States (2: Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (13: Alabama, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Switzerland (2), United States (7: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas)
Total: 54 collections including 58 occurrences
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