Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Alternative spelling: Minetrigoniidae
Parent taxon: Trigoniidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Acanomyphoria, Actinotrigonia, Anditrigoniinae, Asiatotrigonia, Buchotrigonia, Climacotrigonia, Eotrigonia, Geratrigonia, Heterotrigonia, Ibotrigonia, Korobkovitrigonia, Kyushutrigonia, Latitrigonia, Linotrigonia, Liotrigonia, Luxitrigonia, Lyroschizodus, Maputrigonia, Megatrigonia, Mesotrigonia, Microtrigonia, Minetrigonia, Myophorigonia, Neotrigonia, Neuquenitrigoniinae, Nipponitrigonia, Nototrigonia, Nototrigoniinae, Opisthotrigonia, Pacitrigonia, Pleurotrigoniinae, Prorotrigonia, Psilotrigoniinae, Quadratotrigonia, Quoiecchia, Rutitrigonia, Sichuantrigonia, Sphenotrigonia, Trigoniinae, Turbitrigonia, Lyrodon
Subtaxa: Maoritrigonia Perugonia
Ecology: fast-moving shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), Chile (2), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (5), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 18 collections including 23 occurrences