†subfamily Vaugoniinae Kobayashi 1954 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae

Alternative spelling: Vaugoniidae

Parent taxon: Myophorellidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Pérez et al. 2008

Sister taxa: Jhabotrigonia, Moerickella, Myophorellinae, Pseudovaugonia

Subtaxa: Quadratotrigoniini Vaugoniini

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Kyrgyzstan (2 collections), Ukraine (5), United States (3: Arizona)

• Heterian of New Zealand (5)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (5)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (7), Argentina (3), Canada (24: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (27), Cuba (1), France (7), Greenland (1), India (7), Japan (13), Mexico (2), New Zealand (13), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (79: Alaska, California, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming)

Total: 212 collections including 228 occurrences

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