Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Parent taxon: Camptonectes according to S. A. Yamani 1983
Sister taxa: Camptonectes (Annulinectes), Camptonectes (Boreionectes), Camptonectes (Camptochlamys), Camptonectes (Costicamptonectes), Camptonectes (Hunanonectes), Camptonectes (Maclearnia), Camptonectes annulatus, Camptonectes browni, Camptonectes bubonis, Camptonectes dettermani, Camptonectes grandis, Camptonectes laminatus, Camptonectes lens, Camptonectes matonabbei, Camptonectes milleri, Camptonectes mundus, Camptonectes platessa, Camptonectes stygius, Camptonectes subulatus, Camptonectes tutorae, Camptonectes virdunensis, Camptonectes virgatus, Pecten (Camptonectes) placitus
Subtaxa: Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus Camptonectes (Camptonectes) gaultinus Camptonectes (Camptonectes) laminatus Camptonectes (Camptonectes) rigidus Camptonectes (Camptonectes) striatopunctatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (3 collections), Hungary (2), Israel (1), Italy (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (1)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (2), Romania (2)
• Paleocene of Argentina (22)
• Cretaceous of China (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (65: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Antarctica (2), Argentina (4), Bulgaria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (11), China (14), Ethiopia (1), France (15), Germany (12), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), India (63), Iran (1), Japan (2), Kenya (5), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (13), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (1), Spain (37), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (4), the United Kingdom (17), Vietnam (2)
• Triassic of Japan (1)
Total: 345 collections including 371 occurrences