Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Parent taxon: Entoliidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Anderson 1945, Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1924, Dhondt 1971, Kosnik 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Skwarko 1967
Sister taxa: Bupecten, Cingentolium, Entoliinae, Entolioides, Entolium, Palaeoentoliinae, Pernopecten, Scythentolium, Somapecten, Syncyclonematinae
Subtaxa: Syncyclonema cretacea Syncyclonema gamsensis Syncyclonema gibsonia Syncyclonema greppini Syncyclonema haeggi Syncyclonema hagenowi Syncyclonema haggi Syncyclonema haldonensis Syncyclonema kingi Syncyclonema latum Syncyclonema nilsoni Syncyclonema operculiformis Syncyclonema semiplicata
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Netherlands (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Australia (3), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Alberta), China (2), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (7), Greenland (1), India (3), Jamaica (2), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (3), Poland (8), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (289: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Singapore (1)
Total: 355 collections including 412 occurrences
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