Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Parent taxon: Pisidiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Roth and Hartman 1998, Schultz and Cheatum 1970 and Shoshani et al. 1989
Sister taxa: Pisidium, Sphaerioides, Lacustrina
Subtaxa: Sphaerium cooperi Sphaerium hartmanni Sphaerium kettlemanensis Sphaerium nitidum Sphaerium rivicola Sphaerium stewartensis Sphaerium tasmanicum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), France (1), Germany (2), United States (10: California, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (1: Oregon)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), United States (4: California)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Germany (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of France (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Paleocene of Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan)
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Saskatchewan), China (3), Japan (8), United States (7: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of China (1)
Total: 57 collections including 63 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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