Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Parent taxon: Unioninae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
See also Nagao 1928, Nagao 1928 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anodontini, Cucumerunio, Lithodomina, Unionini, Heudeana, Nodularia, Cafferia, Strophitus, Acuticosta
Subtaxa: Unio (Palaeunio) Unio belliplicatus Unio bitumen Unio carteri Unio deserticus Unio franconica Unio galloprovincialis Unio hamili Unio hubbardii Unio hunteri Unio imbricatus Unio johnstoni Unio kirchbergensis Unio littoralis Unio mamillatus Unio natosini Unio patapscoensis Unio penultimus Unio peregrinus Unio pictorum Unio rackianus Unio regularis Unio scrobicularioides Unio sparsa Unio stricklandii Unio tumidus Unio vetustus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections), Egypt (5), Germany (1), Greece (2), Japan (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Romania (1)
• Miocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Croatia (2), Germany (9), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Turkey (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Oligocene of Hungary (2), Japan (1), Switzerland (1)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), Japan (5), the United Kingdom (14), United States (5: Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), Canada (3: Alberta), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), India (6), Japan (10), Malawi (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (17: Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic of China (2), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Portugal (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (4: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tanzania (1), United States (12: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), Zambia (1)
Total: 161 collections including 179 occurrences
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