Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Synonyms: Notoscabrotrigonia Dietrich 1933, Pisotrigonia van Hoepen 1929, Rinetrigonia van Hoepen 1929
Parent taxon: Pterotrigoniinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Leanza and CasadÃo 1991, Sepkoski 2002, Stilwell 1998, Tashiro 1988, Tashiro and Kozai 1982 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Paulckella, Pseudomyophorella, Pterotrigoniini, Scabrotrigoniini
Subtaxa: Notoscabrotrigonia tocaimaana Pisotrigonia salebrosa Pterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis Pterotrigonia borgesi Pterotrigonia crenulata Pterotrigonia cristata Pterotrigonia ethra Pterotrigonia evansana Pterotrigonia klamathonia Pterotrigonia oregana Pterotrigonia vaelsiensis Rinetrigonia ventricosa
Type: Pterotrigonia cristata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Argentina (7), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (9: British Columbia), Chile (9), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (123), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (6), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (14), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (21), United States (380: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (6), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Chile (4), India (3)
Total: 728 collections including 863 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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