This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
Name from
Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Dall, 1908
Other languages
scientific
Vesicomyidae
Alternative Name
scientific
Pliocardiidae
Woodring, 1925
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
scientific
Vesicomyacidae
Dall
Ref.: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63)
M. N. Georgieva, 2019 - Discovery of an Extensive Deep-Sea Fossil Serpulid Reef Associated with a Cold Seep, Santa Monica Basin, California - Frontiers in Marine Science (6), - (journal article, English)
S. Kiel, 2018 - Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the late Pliocene Stirone River hydrocarbon seep complex in northern Italy - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (63), - (journal article, English)
J. G. Carter, 2011 - A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) - University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions (4), 1-47 (serial monograph, English)
K. Amano, 2011 - Fossil Adulomya (Vesicomyidae, Bivalvia) from Japan - The Veliger (51), 76-90 (journal article, English)
P. Bouchet, 2010 - Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families - Malacologia (52), 1-184 (journal article, English)
S. Kiel, 2010 - Oligocene and Miocene Vesicomyid Bivalves from the Katalla District, Southern Alaska - The Veliger (51), 76-84 (journal article, English)
K. Amano, 2007 - Fossil Vesicomyid Bivalves from the North Pacific Region - The Veliger (49), 270-293 (journal article, English)
S. Kiel, 2007 - Status of the enigmatic fossil vesicomyid bivalve Pleurophopsis - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (52), 639-642 (journal article, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
E. V. Coan, 2000 - Bivalve seashells of western North America - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs (2), 1-764 (book/book chapter, English)
T. Nobuhara, 1993 - Palaeoecology of Akebiconcha kawamurai (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) from the Pliocene Tamari Silt Formation in the Kakegawa area, central Japan - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (102), 27-40 (journal article, English)
J. L. Goedert, 1993 - First Oligocene records of Calyptogena (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) - The Veliger (36), 72-77 (journal article, English)
R. L. Squires, 1991 - New morphologic and stratigraphic data on Calyptogena (Calyptogena) gibbera Crickmay, 1929 (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Southern California - The Veliger (34), 73-77 (journal article, English)
R. L. Squires, 1991 - New Late Eocene mollusks from localized limestone deposits formed by subduction-related methane seeps, Southwestern Washington - Journal of Paleontology (65), 412-416 (journal article, English)
S. P. Parker, 1982 - - Synopsis and classification of living organisms (), - (book, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1980 - Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue - Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue (), - (book/book chapter, English)
W. P. Woodring, 1938 - Lower Pliocene mollusks and echinoids from the Los Angeles Basin, California, and their inferred environment - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (190), 1-67 (journal article, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1931 - Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene - Bulletins of American Paleontology (17), - (journal article, English)
C. H. Crickmay, 1929 - On a new pelecypod Calyptogena gibbera - The Canadian Field-Naturalist (43), 93- (journal article, English)