Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Synonyms: Heterostrea Jaworski 1913, Labayophorus Licharew 1939
Parent taxon: Kalenteridae according to S. Kiel 2018
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Caspiconcha, Celtoides, Curionia, Healeyinae, Kalentera, Kalenterinae, Myoconchinae, Permophorus, Pleurophorina, Pseudomyoconcha, Pseudopermophorus, Rimmyjimina, Terzileria, Triaphorus, Gujocardita, Permophorinae, Cypricardites, Patagocardia
Subtaxa: Myoconcha (Modiolina) Myoconcha acquatensis Myoconcha actaeon Myoconcha americana Myoconcha amnipacis Myoconcha appeli Myoconcha aspasia Myoconcha auriculata Myoconcha borealis Myoconcha broilii Myoconcha brunneri Myoconcha busattae Myoconcha costulata Myoconcha crassa Myoconcha curvata Myoconcha decorata Myoconcha delawarensis Myoconcha epigonus Myoconcha giebeli Myoconcha gregaria Myoconcha huancangensis Myoconcha joanniswanneri Myoconcha laevis Myoconcha loeschmanni Myoconcha maximiliani Myoconcha muelleri Myoconcha nana Myoconcha neuquena Myoconcha parvula Myoconcha pavida Myoconcha plana Myoconcha psilonoti Myoconcha ptychitum Myoconcha qingyanensis Myoconcha rathieri Myoconcha recta Myoconcha retroflexa Myoconcha roemeri Myoconcha rugulosa Myoconcha scabra Myoconcha taegeri Myoconcha timorensis Myoconcha weiri Myoconcha woehrmanni
Type: Myoconcha crassa
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (13 collections), Chile (3), Denmark (2), France (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Argentina (4), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (8), Egypt (2), France (4), Germany (29), Greenland (27), India (2), Italy (1), Mexico (5), Poland (3), Portugal (2), Slovakia (1), Somalia (2), Spain (15), Tunisia (4), Türkiye (3), the United Kingdom (12), Yemen (4)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (5), Germany (8), Hungary (13), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (9), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (1), United States (11: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah)
• Permian of Indonesia (1), Japan (1), United States (3: Arizona, Texas)
Total: 231 collections including 257 occurrences
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