Bivalvia - Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Alternative spelling: Congeria (Mytilopsis)
Parent taxon: Dreissenidae according to A. A. Olsson 1931
See also Brown and Pilsbry 1913
Sister taxa: Congeria, Dreissena, Dreisseninae, Dreissenomyinae, Enocephalus, Tichogonia
Subtaxa: Mytilopsis aletici Mytilopsis erimiocenicus Mytilopsis frici Mytilopsis jadrovi Mytilopsis lamellata Mytilopsis leucophaeata Mytilopsis nystiana Mytilopsis sallei Mytilopsis scripta Mytilopsis trigalensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cuba (2 collections), Panama (1), United States (6: Florida, Louisiana)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Croatia (26), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Haiti (1), Peru (3), United States (1: Delaware)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Haiti (2)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Peru (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
Total: 57 collections including 61 occurrences
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