†family Pleuromyidae Dall 1900 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae

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

See also Aberhan 2004, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxon: Ceratomyidae

Subtaxa: Pleuromya Pseudomya

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (4), Canada (7: British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Gabon (4), Germany (2), Japan (2), Lebanon (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (2), New Zealand (12), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (23), South Africa (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: California)

• Heterian of New Zealand (4)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (4)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Antarctica (2), Argentina (2), Bulgaria (7), Canada (43: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (115), China (9), Denmark (3), Egypt (1), France (66), Germany (19), Greenland (113), India (45), Iran (5), Italy (2), Japan (5), Kenya (2), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (4), Mexico (3), New Zealand (17), North Atlantic (1), Poland (8), Portugal (12), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (13), Saudi Arabia (23), Serbia and Montenegro (6), Spain (98), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (9), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (8), Tunisia (9), the United Kingdom (121), United States (13: Alaska, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas), Yemen (1)

• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Austria (12), China (6), Colombia (2), France (3), Germany (11), Hungary (21), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Israel (2), Italy (13), Japan (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (11), Spain (11), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)

Total: 990 collections including 1131 occurrences

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