Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Alternative spelling: Acanthopectinidae
Full reference: N. D. Newell and D.W. Boyd. 1995. Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 227:1-95
Parent taxon: Limipectinidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Newell and Boyd 1995
Sister taxon: Limipectininae
Subtaxa: Acanthopecten Acanthopectinini Costatoplicatinini Lamnipectininae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Leonard of United States (1: Wyoming collection)
• Permian of Australia (6), Canada (4: Nunavut, Yukon), China (19), Italy (4), Japan (7), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (66: Alaska, Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Virgilian of United States (5: Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (5: Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Westphalian of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pennsylvanian of Belize (1)
• Chesterian of Canada (1: Alberta)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Ireland (3), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (29: Alabama, Alaska, California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
• Devonian of Germany (2)
Total: 170 collections including 179 occurrences