Pandora Bruguière 1797 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae

Parent taxon: Pandoridae according to D. Frassinetti and V Covacevich 1995

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Durham 1944, Faustman 1964, Glenn 1904, Hickman 2014, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Nielson and Valdovinos 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Clidiophora, Foveadens

Subtaxa: Pandora (Frenamya) Pandora (Heteroclidus) Pandora (Pandora) Pandora (Pandorella) Pandora cistula Pandora copiosa Pandora dilatata Pandora eocapsella Pandora grandis Pandora inaequivalvis Pandora laevis Pandora pimaeva Pandora scapha Pandora washingtonensis

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Type: Solen inaequivalvis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (2: Nunavut, Ontario collections), Chile (1), Greenland (3), United States (52: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Belgium (4), Chile (1), Japan (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Japan (2), the Netherlands (2), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (5), United States (20: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, Washington)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)

Total: 138 collections including 151 occurrences

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