†family Ctenodontidae Wöhrmann 1893 (clam)

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Hayami and Kase 1977, Nevesskaja 2009, Raymond 1916, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Schultze 2004, Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Ovatoconchidae, Solemyidae

Subtaxa: Alococoncha Ctenodonta Ditichia Kazachia Kufralaria Mesoneilo Praectenodonta Sibiroctenia Tancrediopsis Tellinopsis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Vietnam (1 collection)

• Osagean of United States (1: Indiana)

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Indiana, Kentucky)

• Mississippian of United States (1: Indiana)

• Devonian of Australia (10), China (3), Germany (5), Libya (1), New Zealand (1), South Africa (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (26: Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Silurian of Algeria (2), Argentina (4), Australia (6), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Canada (6: Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (2), Jordan (4), Paraguay (2), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (39: Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Ohio)

• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (7), Bolivia (3), Canada (39: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (7), the Czech Republic (12), France (9), Morocco (2), North Korea (3), Norway (22), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Spain (7), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (100: Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)

• Chazy of Canada (2: Ontario), United States (16: New York)

• Llandeilo of Argentina (1), Australia (3), France (2)

• Whiterockian of United States (13: California, Nevada)

• Arenig of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), France (1), Morocco (2)

Total: 408 collections including 490 occurrences

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