†unranked clade Myophorelloidae Kobayashi 1954 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae

Parent taxon: Myophorelloidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Frenguelliellidae, Megatrigonioidae, Steinmanellidae

Subtaxa: Buchotrigoniidae Laevitrigoniidae Myophorellidae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (11 collections), Argentina (41), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (28), India (3), Japan (10), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (14), Yemen (1)

• Heterian of New Zealand (8)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (5)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (1), Chile (4), Japan (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (11), Argentina (47), Canada (102: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Yukon Territory), Chile (69), China (1), Cuba (1), France (36), Germany (7), Greenland (12), India (18), Iran (5), Japan (27), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (4), Mexico (10), New Zealand (20), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (24), Somalia (1), Spain (34), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (9), Thailand (3), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (73), United States (126: Alaska, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)

• Triassic of United States (8: Nevada, Oregon)

Total: 826 collections including 970 occurrences

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