Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Parent taxon: Camptonectes according to Morris and Lycett 1853
Sister taxa: Camptonectes (Annulinectes), Camptonectes (Boreionectes), Camptonectes (Camptonectes), Camptonectes (Costicamptonectes), Camptonectes (Grandinectes), Camptonectes (Hunanonectes), Camptonectes (Maclearnia), Camptonectes annulatus, Camptonectes browni, Camptonectes bubonis, Camptonectes dettermani, Camptonectes grandis, Camptonectes kaufmanensis, Camptonectes laminatus, Camptonectes lens, Camptonectes malignus, Camptonectes matonabbei, Camptonectes milleri, Camptonectes mundus, Camptonectes platessa, Camptonectes stygius, Camptonectes subulatus, Camptonectes tutorae, Camptonectes virdunensis, Camptonectes virgatus, Pecten (Camptonectes) placitus
Subtaxa: Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) clathratus Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) obscurus Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) retiferus Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) rosimon Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) zitteli
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Libya (2 collections)
• Eocene of Australia (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (6)
• Jurassic of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (3), France (8), Germany (1), India (12), Portugal (1), Romania (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Italy (12), Slovenia (1)
Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence