Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1975. Parallel evolution in early trigonacean bivalves. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 154(2):55-162
Parent taxon: Trigonioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009 and Newell and Boyd 1975
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Eoastartinae Heteroschizodus Schizodinae Schizodus Silurozodus Sinodorinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (39), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), Chile (2), China (49), Germany (6), Greece (2), Greenland (5), India (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (12), Japan (1), Laos (1), Latvia (4), Lithuania (9), Madagascar (1), Mexico (6), Nepal (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (24), Peru (1), Poland (18), the Russian Federation (42), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (55), United States (156: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)
• Namurian of Argentina (1), Australia (5)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (8), Australia (8), Belize (1), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (4), Peru (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (143: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Canada (1: Quebec), China (10), Germany (1), United States (8: Alaska, Maryland, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 670 collections including 809 occurrences