Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Parent taxon: Buchiidae according to T. J. Wild and J. D. Stilwell 2016
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Allobuchia, Anningella, Australobuchia, Bittneria, Buchia, Eobuchiinae, Hokonuia, Malayomaorica, Marwickiella, Paraucellina, Sichuania
Subtaxa: Aucellina coquandiana Aucellina dowlingi Aucellina gryphaeoides Aucellina radiatostriata
Type: Avicula gryphaeoides
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (12 collections)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (2), Australia (7), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (9: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (6), Ecuador (2), France (4), Germany (9), Greenland (3), Indian Ocean (1), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (36), Papua New Guinea (2), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), United States (20: Alaska, California, Oregon, Utah)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Yukon), New Zealand (2)
Total: 140 collections including 162 occurrences
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