Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1995. Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 227:1-95
Parent taxon: Claraiinae according to T. Komatsu et al. 2014
See also Komatsu and Dang 2013, Newell and Boyd 1995, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Waterhouse 2001
Sister taxon: Claraiini
Subtaxa: Crittendenia australasiatica Crittendenia decidens Crittendenia kummeli Crittendenia langsonensis Crittendenia painkhandana
Type: Crittendenia kummeli
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (7 collections), Germany (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Japan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Nepal (4), Pakistan (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), United States (8: Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (36)
Total: 76 collections including 83 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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