Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Parent taxon: Pectininae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Dijkstra and Kilburn 2001
Sister taxa: Aequipectinini, Amusiini, Annachlamys, Carolinapecten, Chlamydini, Mesopeplum, Oppenheimopecten, Pecten, Pectinini
Subtaxa: Anguipecten Antillipecten Glorichlamys Gloripallium Juxtamusium
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Japan (1), Kenya (9), Tonga (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4), Egypt (1), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (4), Japan (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Anguilla (2), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Fiji (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (4), United States (3: Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (2), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Florida)
Total: 65 collections including 66 occurrences