Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Parent taxon: Trigoniinae according to E. Pérez et al. 2008
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Meek 1864, Packard 1921, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Guineana, Magharitrigonia
Subtaxa: Trigonia (Clavitrigonia) Trigonia (Heslingtonia) Trigonia (Indotrigonia) Trigonia (Kumatrigonia) Trigonia (Pleurotrigonia) Trigonia (Primatrigonia) Trigonia (Prosogyrotrigonia) Trigonia (Protrigonia) Trigonia (Trigonia) Trigonia aequicostata Trigonia analoga Trigonia angulicosta Trigonia antiqua Trigonia azzarolae Trigonia bowersiana Trigonia carinata Trigonia castani Trigonia charlottensis Trigonia columbiana Trigonia coqueiroensis Trigonia depauperata Trigonia devexa Trigonia doroschini Trigonia eufalensis Trigonia gibboniana Trigonia hemisphaerica Trigonia imbricata Trigonia intersitans Trigonia kayana Trigonia kefersteini Trigonia literata Trigonia maastrichtiana Trigonia maloneana Trigonia marginata Trigonia melhasei Trigonia montanaensis Trigonia mooreana Trigonia nodulosa Trigonia obliqua Trigonia oregona Trigonia orientalis Trigonia oviedensis Trigonia pandicosta Trigonia papuana Trigonia picteti Trigonia plana Trigonia plumasensis Trigonia pseudocrenulata Trigonia pullus Trigonia rebouli Trigonia reesidei Trigonia reticulata Trigonia somaliensis Trigonia sulcata Trigonia tabacoensis Trigonia thierachensis Trigonia undulata Trigonia undulatocostata Trigonia wilckensi
Type: Venus sulcata
Ecology: fast-moving shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (18), Armenia (1), Australia (2), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (12), Colombia (1), Egypt (8), France (8), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Lebanon (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (15), Nigeria (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (3), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (7), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (15), the United Kingdom (5), United States (52: Arizona, California, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (2), Yemen (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (5), Canada (19: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (47), China (1), Egypt (5), Ethiopia (1), France (28), Germany (3), Greenland (17), India (61), Iran (1), Japan (4), Kenya (6), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (5), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (3), Poland (5), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (30), Somalia (4), Spain (28), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (36), Thailand (3), Tunisia (19), the United Kingdom (31), United States (107: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming ), Yemen (15)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Chile (2), China (3), Iran (12), Italy (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (3), Tajikistan (1), United States (2: Alaska, Idaho), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of Bolivia (1)
Total: 724 collections including 792 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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