Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Parent taxon: Plicatuloidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, CasadÃo et al. 2005, Dockery 1982, Moore 1987, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Squires 1987, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxon: Chondrodontidae
Subtaxa: Diploschiza Harpax Plicatula Pseudoplacunopsis Saintiopsis Spiniplicatula
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (2 collections), Brazil (3), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (4), Egypt (1), Eritrea (4), Japan (3), Kenya (5), Mexico (1), Pakistan (2), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), United States (39: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (1), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (4)
• Pliocene of Colombia (4), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (41: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene of Brazil (9), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (2), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Mexico (1), Moldova (4), Panama (4), Poland (5), Slovakia (1), United States (12: Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (20)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (5: Mississippi, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (7), France (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Mexico (6), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), United States (84: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Belgium (3), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Mali (2), Nigeria (1), United States (10: Alabama, California)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Angola (1), Argentina (15), Brazil (12), Cameroon (14), China (1), Colombia (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (40), France (14), Gabon (2), Germany (3), India (3), Italy (1), Japan (4), Jordan (4), Libya (3), Madagascar (5), Mexico (15), New Zealand (4), Nigeria (17), Oman (2), Peru (15), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Spain (5), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (3), USSR (8), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (163: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Utah)
• Jurassic of Argentina (27), Bulgaria (4), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (32), China (2), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (2), France (27), Germany (39), Greenland (37), India (19), Israel (1), Italy (4), Japan (4), Kenya (1), Madagascar (4), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), Portugal (58), the Russian Federation (7), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (94), the United Kingdom (41), United States (25: Alaska, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (79), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (20), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (12), Italy (21), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (13: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 1374 collections including 1566 occurrences