Superfamily Pandoroidea Rafinesque 1815 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pandorida

Alternative spelling: Pandoracea

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

See also Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Hickman 2014, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Stilwell et al. 2004, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxon: Clavagelloidea

Subtaxa: Adelosiphonia Laternulidae Lyonsiidae Pandoridae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (2 collections), Australia (1), Canada (6: New Brunswick, Nunavut, Ontario), Chile (1), Costa Rica (1), Greenland (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), United States (66: California, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (5), Chile (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (17: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene of Belgium (3), the Dominican Republic (2), Germany (3), Heard Island and McDonald Islands (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands (2), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (5), Slovakia (1), United States (24: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (7: Alaska, California, Washington)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (12: California, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene of Denmark (4), United States (3: New Jersey, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (1: Alberta), Cuba (1), Egypt (4), France (1), India (1), Italy (2), Japan (20), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (3), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (109: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of Chile (30), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (8), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (4), Kenya (2), Mexico (3), Portugal (24), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (14: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (3)

• Triassic of China (2), Iran (2), Italy (3), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 476 collections including 570 occurrences

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