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
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