Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Alternative spelling: Terquemia (Placunopsis)
Parent taxon: Anomiidae according to J. A. Todd and T. J. Palmer 2002
See also Bittner 1895, Bouchet et al. 2010, Lazo and Damborenea 2011, Marwick 1953, Ronchetti 1970, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anomia, Anomianella, Anomiinae, Carolia, Enigmonia, Eonomia, Hemiplacuna, Heteranomia, Indoplacuna, Isomonia, Juranomia, Operculella, Paranomia, Paraplacuna, Parinomya, Pindorama, Placunanomia, Placunanomiinae, Placunema, Pododesmus, Pseudoplacuna, Tedinia, Wakullina
Subtaxa: Placunopsis fibrosa Placunopsis fissistriata Placunopsis gracilis Placunopsis minuta Placunopsis napengensis Placunopsis nuka Placunopsis obliqua Placunopsis ostracina Placunopsis parasita Placunopsis parvula Placunopsis plana Placunopsis radiata Placunopsis rothi Placunopsis rothpletzi Placunopsis socialis Placunopsis striatula
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3), Chile (1), Denmark (3), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Japan (10), Poland (6), Slovakia (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (7), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (4), China (5), France (24), Germany (4), Greenland (28), Hungary (3), India (20), Italy (1), Kenya (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), Portugal (23), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (12), Tanzania (2), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (53), United States (1: Montana)
• Triassic of Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (16), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (20), Hungary (5), Indonesia (8), Israel (2), Italy (5), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Spain (27), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (6: Alaska, Nevada), Vietnam (1)
Total: 344 collections including 361 occurrences
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