†family Atomodesmatidae Waterhouse 1976 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae

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

See also Nevesskaja 2009

Sister taxa: Inoceramidae, Kolymiidae, Retroceramidae

Subtaxa: Atomodesmatinae Malimanininae Permoceraminae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (11 collections), Indonesia (2), the Russian Federation (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (3), Australia (45), Brazil (1), Canada (2: Yukon), China (2), Greenland (4), India (1), Indonesia (7), Namibia (1), Nepal (10), New Caledonia (6), New Zealand (39), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (154), United States (4: Alaska, Nevada, Wyoming)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1)

Total: 309 collections including 336 occurrences

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