Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Teredinidae according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Kuphinae, Terebrimya, Teredininae, Teredinopsis, Teredolithus, Teredothyra, Turnus, Xylotrya
Subtaxa: Teredo (Psiloteredo) Teredo (Teredo) Teredo alpina Teredo dendrolestes Teredo mississippiensis Teredo pugetensis Teredo simplex Teredo simplexopsis Teredo virginiana
Ecology: stationary boring herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (1), Cuba (6), Cyprus (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (8), Moldova (5), Panama (1), United States (4: California, Florida, South Carolina)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (7: Mississippi, Oregon)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (4), France (3), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (38: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (1), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (30: Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Motuan of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Chile (1), Japan (4), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (5), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Alabama, Colorado, Mississippi, Tennessee, Wyoming)
Total: 185 collections including 197 occurrences
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