Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Synonym: Dozierella Newell 1940
Parent taxon: Pterineidae according to M. R. W. Amler 2010
See also Amler 1992, Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Boyd and Newell 2001, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Actinodesma, Actinopterella, Actinopterellinae, Actinopteria, Alnifia, Anderkenia, Barbosaia, Bolsopteria, Caneyella, Cheiopteria, Cliopteria, Cornellites, Cyrtodontarca, Denticelox, Dolichopteron, Ectenodesma, Eopterinea, Glyptodesma, Guichiella, Leiopteriinae, Leptodesmatinae, Limoptera, Limopterinae, Merismopteria, Micropteriinae, Molinicola, Nennapteria, Oxytomoidea, Palaeopinna, Palaeopteria, Placopterina, Pseudobakewellia, Pterinea, Pteronitella, Pteronites, Pteronitina, Ptychopteria, Tolmaia, Wuxuanites, Ahtioconcha
Subtaxa: Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Leptodesma (Leptodesma) Leptodesma (Springeria) Leptodesma bakewellioides Leptodesma chidruensis Leptodesma eolus Leptodesma gouldii Leptodesma guadalupensis Leptodesma indistincta Leptodesma rogersi Leptodesma spinigerum Leptodesma transversa Leptodesma welleri Leptodesma wupperanum
Type: Leptodesma rogersi
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), China (16), Greece (4), India (2), Italy (3), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (7), Tunisia (4), United States (31: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Brazil (3), China (1), Germany (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (6), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (51: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Australia (13), Brazil (2), Canada (4: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (16), the Czech Republic (3), France (3), Germany (9), Ghana (1), Italy (1), Libya (8), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (4), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (291: Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (3)
• Silurian of Austria (1), Canada (5: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (4), the Czech Republic (4), France (2), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Poland (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (27: Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of the Czech Republic (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 590 collections including 688 occurrences
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