Superfamily Limopsoidea Dall 1895 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida

Invalid subtaxa: Limnopsacea Dall 1895 [replaced name], Limopsacea Dall 1895 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Arcida according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Anelli et al. 2006, Beu et al. 1990, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Cope 1997, Dockery 1982, Hickman 2023, Maxwell 1992, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ride et al. 1999, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 2012, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxa: Antoneila, Arcoidea, Austracuculiaea, Ekaterdonta, Glycymeridoidea, Glycymeroidea, Glyptarcoidea, Okinawanoarca, Pentoperna, Philobryoidea, Pitchleria

Subtaxa: Limopsidae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (6 collections), Argentina (1), Costa Rica (3), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), Ireland (1), Italy (2), Japan (4), Kenya (2), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (2), Yemen (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Belgium (3), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (5), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (2), Jamaica (3), Japan (11), Panama (2), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (3), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Indonesia (2)

• Miocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (10), Australia (20), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (5), Chile (3), Cyprus (3), Denmark (1), Germany (55), Grenada (7), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (5), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (25), Panama (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Australia (3), Denmark (5), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (19), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (4: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2)

• Eocene of Australia (7), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), France (6), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (59: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)

• Paleocene of Belgium (4), Denmark (6), Germany (1), Greenland (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Puerto Rico (1), United States (9: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Denmark (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (10), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (55: Alabama, California, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (15), Germany (18), Hungary (1), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 535 collections including 722 occurrences

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