Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Clementia according to J. A. Todd 2001
See also Oostingh 1935, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Perrilliat 1992, Perrilliat 1994 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Clementia (Egesta), Clementia conradiana, Clementia elongata, Clementia fischeri, Clementia inequalis
Subtaxa: Clementia (Clementia) dariena Clementia (Clementia) deshayesi Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Clementia (Clementia) papyracea Clementia (Clementia) parinensis Clementia (Clementia) protopapyracea Clementia (Clementia) restinensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Japan (2), Kenya (2), Pakistan (1), Yemen (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (4), Pakistan (4), the Philippines (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Brazil (6), Colombia (20), Ecuador (6), India (4), Indonesia (4), Iran (2), Japan (1), Mexico (6), Pakistan (6), Panama (50), Peru (5), the Philippines (1), Somalia (5), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (11: Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (17)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (8), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of the Netherlands Antilles (1), Peru (5), the United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (4)
Total: 199 collections including 202 occurrences