Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Synonym: Ahtioconchidae Eberzin 1960
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1877. The American Palaeozoic fossils: a catologue of the genera and species. 2nd ed. 1-293
Parent taxon: Malleidina according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Amler 2010, Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Pinnoidea, Posidonioidea, Pterioidea, Rhombopterioidea
Subtaxa: Actinodesma Actinopterella Actinopterellinae Actinopteria Ahtioconcha Alnifia Anderkenia Barbosaia Bolsopteria Caneyella Cheiopteria Cliopteria Cornellites Cyrtodontarca Denticelox Dolichopteron Ectenodesma Eopterinea Glyptodesma Guichiella Leiopteriinae Leptodesma Leptodesmatinae Limoptera Limopterinae Merismopteria Micropteriinae Molinicola Nennapteria Oxytomoidea Palaeopinna Palaeopteria Placopterina Pseudobakewellia Pterinea Pteronitella Pteronites Pteronitina Ptychopteria Tolmaia Wuxuanites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (3 collections), Germany (2), Malaysia (1)
• Permian of Argentina (2), Australia (33), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (2), China (20), Greece (4), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Japan (3), Latvia (8), Lithuania (28), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (35), Tunisia (4), United States (31: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of China (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Brazil (3), Canada (2: Alberta), China (1), Germany (2), Ireland (1), Mexico (6), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (66), United States (89: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Givetian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Australia (38), Brazil (4), Canada (13: Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (35), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (8), France (6), Germany (17), Ghana (1), Italy (2), Libya (9), Luxembourg (3), Morocco (3), New Zealand (9), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (7), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (18), United States (549: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (5), Vietnam (3)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Poland (3), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Algeria (2), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (18: Anticosti, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), the Czech Republic (11), France (3), Greenland (1), Ireland (3), Italy (5), Jordan (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (4), Norway (4), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (6), Sweden (6), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (44), United States (110: Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (5), Bolivia (1), Canada (28: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), Morocco (1), Norway (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (182: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 1603 collections including 2102 occurrences