†family Myophorellidae Kobayashi 1954 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae

Parent taxon: Myophorelloidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Pérez et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Buchotrigoniidae, Laevitrigoniidae

Subtaxa: Jhabotrigonia Moerickella Myophorellinae Pseudovaugonia Vaugoniinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (2), Chile (12), Japan (3), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (1), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (14), United States (3: Arizona)

• Heterian of New Zealand (8)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (5)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Chile (4), Japan (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (11), Argentina (31), Canada (90: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (52), China (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (5), France (36), Germany (7), Greenland (12), India (16), Iran (5), Japan (27), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (2), Mexico (4), New Zealand (19), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (24), Romania (2), Spain (34), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (2), Thailand (3), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (70), United States (125: Alaska, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)

Total: 677 collections including 781 occurrences

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