Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Parent taxon: Myophorelloidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Pérez et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Buchotrigoniidae, Laevitrigoniidae
Subtaxa: Myophorellinae Steinmanellinae Vaugoniinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (40), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (27), India (1), Japan (10), Mexico (1), South Africa (3), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (14)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (1), Chile (4), Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (11), Argentina (31), Canada (88: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (55), China (1), Cuba (1), France (36), Germany (7), Greenland (12), India (16), Iran (5), Japan (27), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (2), Mexico (4), New Zealand (31), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (24), Spain (34), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (2), Thailand (3), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (70), United States (125: Alaska, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)
Total: 732 collections including 845 occurrences