Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cyrenidae
Alternative spelling: Cyrene
Parent taxon: Cyrenidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2010
See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Nagao 1928 and Nagao 1928
Sister taxa: Polymesodinae, Serrilaminula
Subtaxa: Cyrena abbreviata Cyrena californica Cyrena cardioides Cyrena caroliniensis Cyrena consobrina Cyrena difficilis Cyrena distincta Cyrena dutemplei Cyrena gravesi Cyrena incompta Cyrena lamberti Cyrena marylandica Cyrena mirabilis Cyrena nobilis Cyrena rhaetica Cyrena saincenyensis Cyrena veneriformis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Panama (1 collection), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (11: Florida, Georgia)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (1), Romania (9)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), France (1), Greenland (2), Italy (1), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (42)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Poland (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), China (1), France (2), Germany (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Maryland, New Mexico)
• Jurassic of Greenland (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Italy (3)
Total: 102 collections including 126 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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