Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Synonym: Peribositria Kurushin and Truschelev 1989
Parent taxon: Posidoniidae according to A. S. Dagis et al. 1996
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hayami 1975, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Waller and Stanley 2005
Sister taxa: Amonotis, Caenodiotis, Didymotis, Ellesmerella, Guerichia, Imposidonia, Magnolobia, Multisidonia, Posidonia, Posidonotis, Pseudodidymotis, Pterohalobia, Steinmannia, Veldidenella
Subtaxa: Bositra buchi Bositra circularis Bositra limbata Bositra sabinensis Bositra sibirica Bositra wengensis Peribositria backlundi Peribositria borealis Peribositria inflata Peribositria jakutica Peribositria mimer Peribositria popowi Peribositria sossunovi Peribositria taimyrensis Peribositria tenuissima Peribositria tompoensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Colombia (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Argentina (8), Canada (33: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (8), China (1), France (2), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (69), Iran (1), Italy (5), Japan (5), Kenya (1), Morocco (9), Poland (7), Portugal (3), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (12), Switzerland (124), Tanzania (4), Thailand (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (41), United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Triassic of Canada (6: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (19), Hungary (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (19), Japan (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (17), Slovenia (3), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (32), Thailand (1), United States (3: Alaska, Nevada), Vietnam (14)
Total: 472 collections including 486 occurrences
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