Pterotrigonia van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae

Synonyms: Notoscabrotrigonia Dietrich 1933, Pisotrigonia van Hoepen 1929, Rinetrigonia van Hoepen 1929

Parent taxon: Pterotrigoniinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Leanza and Casadío 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Stilwell 1998, Tashiro 1988, Tashiro and Kozai 1982 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Paulckella, Pseudomyophorella, Pterotrigoniini, Scabrotrigoniini

Subtaxa: Notoscabrotrigonia tocaimaana Pisotrigonia salebrosa Pterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis Pterotrigonia borgesi Pterotrigonia crenulata Pterotrigonia cristata Pterotrigonia ethra Pterotrigonia evansana Pterotrigonia klamathonia Pterotrigonia vaelsiensis Rinetrigonia ventricosa

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Argentina (7), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (8: British Columbia), Chile (9), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (123), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (6), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (14), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (20), United States (374: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (6), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Chile (4), India (3)

Total: 720 collections including 854 occurrences

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