†family Quenstedtiidae Cox 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae

Parent taxon: Tellinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Donacidae, Icanotiidae, Psammobiidae, Semelidae, Solecurtidae, Sowerbyidae, Tancrediidae, Tellinidae, Unicardiopsidae

Subtaxa: Quenstedtia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of Chile (5), China (2), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (15), India (7), Kenya (5), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), the United Kingdom (9), United States (16: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Silurian of United States (1: California)

Total: 71 collections including 73 occurrences

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