Cuneamya Hall and Whitfield 1875 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Grammysiidae

Parent taxon: Grammysiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Toni 1975

Sister taxa: Andinodesma, Arenigomya, Asketomorpha, Cercomyopsis, Cimitaria, Cuneamyinae, Ectogrammysia, Fuchsella, Glyptoconcha, Grammysia, Grammysiinae, Leinzia, Sphenotus, Zaidiomysia, Protomya

Subtaxa: Cuneamya elliptica Cuneamya miamiensis Cuneamya neglecta Cuneamya scapha

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Type: Cuneamya miamiensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (7: New York collections), Venezuela (1)

• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario), United States (13: New York)

• Volkhov of Argentina (1)

• Ordovician of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec), Norway (7), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (39: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa)

Total: 78 collections including 79 occurrences

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