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Retroceramus aff everesti

Retroceramus aff everesti, Puaroan Waikatoan Substage. Waikaretu Rd. This is from the same layer of sediment as the Subdichotomoceras.

 

†Retroceramus Koschelkina 1958 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 17005

Parent taxon: Inoceramidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actinoceramus, Anopaea, Arctomytiloides, Cataceramus, Cladoceramus, Coloniceraminae, Cremnoceramus, Inaequiceramus, Inoceraminae, Inoceramus, Magadiceramus, Mytiloides, Neocomiceramus, Neoinoceramus, Parainoceramya, Platyceramus, Pseudomytiloides, Sachalinoceraminae, Spyridoceramus, Tethyoceramus, Trochoceramus, Volviceramus

 

Subtaxa: Retroceramus clinatus, Retroceramus elegans, Retroceramus haasti, Retroceramus jurensis, Retroceramus menneri, Retroceramus obliquus, Retroceramus originalis, Retroceramus popovi, Retroceramus priscus, Retroceramus provincialis, Retroceramus solidus, Retroceramus subtilis

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Environments: marine (19 collections), marginal marine (5), offshore shelf (3), basinal (siliciclastic) (2), (2), open shallow subtidal (2), carbonate (1), shallow subtidal (1), offshore (1), transition zone/lower shoreface (1)

Age range: 196.5 to 145.5 Ma

Distribution:• Jurassic to Cretaceous of New Caledonia (1 collection)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (5), Argentina (6), Canada (1: Yukon), East Timor (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (24), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (14), Serbia and Montenegro (1)

Total: 55 collections including 70 occurrences

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Uploaded on October 13, 2013
Taken on October 4, 2013