Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Parent taxon: Trigoniidae according to L. R. Cox 1952
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanomyphoria, Actinotrigonia, Anditrigoniinae, Asiatotrigonia, Buchotrigonia, Climacotrigonia, Eotrigonia, Geratrigonia, Heterotrigonia, Ibotrigonia, Korobkovitrigonia, Kyushutrigonia, Latitrigonia, Linotrigonia, Liotrigonia, Luxitrigonia, Lyroschizodus, Maputrigonia, Mesotrigonia, Microtrigonia, Minetrigonia, Minetrigoniinae, Myophorigonia, Neotrigonia, Neuquenitrigoniinae, Nipponitrigonia, Nototrigonia, Nototrigoniinae, Opisthotrigonia, Pacitrigonia, Pleurotrigoniinae, Prorotrigonia, Psilotrigoniinae, Quadratotrigonia, Quoiecchia, Rutitrigonia, Sichuantrigonia, Sphenotrigonia, Trigoniinae, Turbitrigonia, Lyrodon
Subtaxa: Megatrigonia (Apiotrigonia) Megatrigonia arsinoe Megatrigonia carrincurensis Megatrigonia conocardiiformis Megatrigonia discors Megatrigonia eximia Megatrigonia obesa Megatrigonia picunensis Megatrigonia pusilla Megatrigonia staffi
Ecology: fast-moving shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Chile (1 collection), Japan (28), Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (4), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (10: California, Oregon)
Total: 47 collections including 51 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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