Subfamily Solemyinae Gray 1840 (Awning Clam)

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae

Synonyms: Janacekiidae Ruzicka 1978, Janacekiinae Ruzicka 1978

Parent taxon: Solemyidae according to J. B. Bailey 2021

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Acharacinae, Clinopisthinae, Ovatoconcha, Palaeosolemya, Solemya, Trachyaspis turbulensis, Vorkutella, Zesolemya

Subtaxa: Acharax Mazonomya

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Italy (2), Japan (3), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Italy (1), Japan (6), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), United States (2: Oregon)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (8: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)

• Eocene of Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (4: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Cretaceous of Japan (2), United States (5: California)

• Jurassic of United States (2: California)

• Permian of Australia (1), China (1), Italy (4), Oman (2), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (6), United States (4: Arizona, New Mexico)

• Virgilian of United States (4: Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio)

• Desmoinesian of United States (8: Missouri)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: Maryland, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio)

Total: 101 collections including 111 occurrences

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