Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Synonyms: Chlamydidae Korobkov 1960, Hinnitinae Habe 1977, Subulatachlamydinae Romanov 1984
Parent taxon: Pectinidae according to R. Marquet 2002
See also Beu and Taviani 2013, Bouchet et al. 2010, Clapham 2015, Coan et al. 2000, del Rio 1992, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Marquet and Dijkstra 2000, Waller 1993 and Ward and Blackwelder 1975
Sister taxa: Agerchlamys, Altaipecten, Amusium, Amussiopecten, Antipecten, Argopecten, Athlopecten, Avichlamys, Batequeus, Bractechlamys, Camptonectes, Camptonectinae, Canadonectites, Chesapecten, Chlamys, Complicachlamys, Coralichlamys, Costamussium, Costellamussiopecten, Crenamussium, Cristatopecten, Decadopecten, Decatopecten, Dimarzipecten, Eopecten, Euvola, Excellichlamys, Flabellipecten, Flexopecten, Fortipecten, Gigantopecten, Giraliapecten, Granulochlamys, Hinnites, Hunanonectes, Indopecten, Iranopecten, Janupecten, Jorgechlamys, Korobkovia, Kotorapecten, Leopecten, Lepidopecten, Leptopecten, Lituyapecten, Loxochlamys, Lyriochlamys, Lyropecten, Lyssochlamys, Macrochlamis, Manupecten, Mclearniinae, Merklinia, Micronectes, Minnivola, Mirapecten, Nanaochlamys, Neithella, Nevadapecten, Nippononectes, Nodipecten, Ochotochlamys, Palliolinae, Pascahinnites, Pectininae, Pedinae, Periclaraia, Philippia, Placopecten, Pleuronectites, Praechlamys, Prohinnites, Pseudopecten, Pseudopectininae, Radiopecten, Radulonectites, Radulopecten, Rebeccapecten, Sectipecten, Serratovola, Spathochlamys, Spondylopecten, Stralopecten, Tosapecten, Ventalium, Vertipecten, Volachlamys, Weylinae, Yabepecten
Subtaxa: Aequipecten Crassadoma Cryptopecten Hilberia Janopecten Patriciapecten Psychrochlamys Semipallium Subulatachlamys Taimyronectes
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (4 collections), Belgium (2), Brazil (7), Egypt (1), Greece (1), Haiti (2), Ireland (1), Italy (3), Japan (2), Kenya (2), Mexico (8), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (39: California, Florida, North Carolina), Uruguay (1), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Algeria (4), Belgium (9), the Dominican Republic (1), Greece (5), Haiti (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (15: California, Florida)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Alabama)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (10), Argentina (34), Australia (14), Austria (5), Belgium (10), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (5), Fiji (2), France (7), Germany (27), Greece (2), Haiti (3), India (1), Italy (8), Japan (1), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Panama (7), Poland (6), Romania (2), Slovakia (4), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (12: California, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Bulgaria (5), Denmark (4), Haiti (2), India (4), Iran (1), Israel (1), Libya (1), Panama (2), United States (17: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (9), China (1), Romania (1), Turkey (1), United States (12: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), China (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (3), New Zealand (6), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (22), Japan (5), Luxembourg (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Tanzania (2), the United Kingdom (4)
• Triassic of China (4), Indonesia (8), the Russian Federation (10)
Total: 506 collections including 576 occurrences