Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Alternative spelling: Myophorella (Vaugonia)
Parent taxon: Vaugoniinae according to E. Pérez et al. 2008
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Fleming 1987, Melville 1956, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Vaugonia (Hijitrigonia) Vaugonia (Vaugonia) Vaugonia angulata Vaugonia clythia Vaugonia detrita Vaugonia doroschini Vaugonia flecta Vaugonia flexicostata Vaugonia goodalli Vaugonia gottschei Vaugonia hauchcornei Vaugonia imlayi Vaugonia kobayashii Vaugonia niranohamensis Vaugonia obliqua Vaugonia substriata Vaugonia tripartita Vaugonia utahensis Vaugonia vcostata Vaugonia veronica Vaugonia yukonensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Heterian of New Zealand (5 collections)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (5)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (7), Argentina (3), Canada (24: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (27), Cuba (1), France (7), Greenland (1), India (7), Japan (13), Mexico (2), New Zealand (13), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (79: Alaska, California, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 202 collections including 217 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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