Trigonia Bruguière 1789 (clam)

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 antiqua Trigonia azzarolae Trigonia bowersiana Trigonia castani Trigonia castrovillensis Trigonia charlottensis Trigonia columbiana Trigonia coqueiroensis Trigonia cragini Trigonia depauperata Trigonia devexa Trigonia doroschini Trigonia eufaulensis gabbi Trigonia eufaulensis moorei Trigonia evansi Trigonia gibboniana Trigonia guildi Trigonia hemisphaerica Trigonia imbricata Trigonia intersitans Trigonia kayana Trigonia kefersteini Trigonia kitchini Trigonia maastrichtiana Trigonia maloneana Trigonia marginata Trigonia mearnsi Trigonia melhasei Trigonia montanaensis Trigonia mooreana Trigonia neuquensis Trigonia nodulosa Trigonia obliqua Trigonia oregona Trigonia orientalis Trigonia oviedensis Trigonia pandicosta Trigonia papuana Trigonia picteti Trigonia plana Trigonia plumasensis Trigonia pseudocaudata Trigonia pseudocrenulata Trigonia pullus Trigonia rebouli Trigonia reesidei Trigonia resoluta Trigonia reticulata Trigonia saavedra Trigonia somaliensis Trigonia stantoni Trigonia stolleyi Trigonia suborbicularis Trigonia sulcata Trigonia tabacoensis Trigonia taffi Trigonia thierachensis Trigonia undulatocostata Trigonia weaveri Trigonia windhauseniana

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Argentina (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (49), Armenia (1), Australia (2), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (13), Colombia (1), Egypt (8), France (11), Greenland (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Lebanon (1), Mexico (11), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (28), Nigeria (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (3), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Switzerland (19), Tanzania (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (15), the United Kingdom (6), United States (70: 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 (1), Canada (19: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (47), China (1), Egypt (5), Ethiopia (2), France (28), Germany (3), Greenland (17), India (74), Iran (1), Japan (4), Kenya (7), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (6), 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), 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: 823 collections including 924 occurrences

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