Yoldia (Cnesterium) Dall 1898 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Alternative spelling: Cnesterium

Parent taxon: Yoldia according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000

See also Kafanov et al. 2005, Moore 1983 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Yoldia (Kalayoldia), Yoldia (Mirayoldia), Yoldia (Nampiella), Yoldia (Sachalinella), Yoldia (Yoldia), Yoldia blakeleyensis, Yoldia bocasensis, Yoldia clydoniona, Yoldia cooperii, Yoldia cupressensis, Yoldia dowlingi, Yoldia duprei, Yoldia evansi, Yoldia freytagi, Yoldia gala, Yoldia gladenkovi, Yoldia hikoshimensis, Yoldia impressa, Yoldia inaequisculpta, Yoldia kermadecensis, Yoldia kissoumi, Yoldia laevis, Yoldia limatula, Yoldia mater, Yoldia mcconnelli, Yoldia nasuta, Yoldia newcombi, Yoldia nitida, Yoldia olympiana, Yoldia peninsularis, Yoldia pisciformis, Yoldia sagittalia, Yoldia sammamishensis, Yoldia sapotilla, Yoldia scaphoides, Yoldia serica, Yoldia subscitula, Yoldia supramontereyana

Subtaxa: Yoldia (Cnesterium) aeolica Yoldia (Cnesterium) ermanensis Yoldia (Cnesterium) notabilis Yoldia (Cnesterium) rekinnensis Yoldia (Cnesterium) supraoregona Yoldia (Cnesterium) yamagatana

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (10: California collections)

• Pliocene of Japan (3), the Russian Federation (5), United States (3: California, Oregon)

• Miocene of Japan (10), Morocco (5), the Russian Federation (13), United States (5: Alaska)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 59 collections including 71 occurrences

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