Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parent taxon: Grammatodontinae according to E. Gliozzi and A. Malatesta 1983
See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aptolinter, Catellini, Cryptochasma, Grammatodontini, Nanonavis, Nemodon, Nemodontini, Notogrammatodon, Pseudogrammatodon, Pseudomacrodon, Stenocolpus, Torinosucatella, Nordenskjoeldia, Obliquidon
Subtaxa: Grammatodon (Grammatodon) Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Grammatodon (Lamellelodon) Grammatodon (Nanonavis) Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) Grammatodon concinnus Grammatodon egortinus Grammatodon formosissimum Grammatodon inornata Grammatodon insons Grammatodon malayensis Grammatodon sulcatus Grammatodon toyorensis Grammatodon tripartitus
Type: Arca (Cucullaea) inornata
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (2), France (3), Germany (1), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (20), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (4), New Zealand (7), Poland (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (33: California, Texas)
• Heterian of New Zealand (2)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (8), Bulgaria (4), Canada (19: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (4), China (4), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), France (27), Germany (35), Greenland (54), India (113), Iran (1), Japan (6), Kenya (6), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (12), Mexico (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (12), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (4), Portugal (45), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (11), Spain (94), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (12), Tanzania (17), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (62), United States (28: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1), Yemen (16)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Iran (1), Italy (4), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of China (5), Greece (6), United States (2: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Kentucky)
• Devonian of United States (20: Nevada, New York)
• Paleozoic of Chile (1)
Total: 770 collections including 858 occurrences
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