†family Megatrigoniidae van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae

Synonym: Anditrigoniidae Leanza 1993

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Iotrigoniidae

Subtaxa: Anditrigonia Megatrigoniinae Pterotrigoniinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Angola (3), Antarctica (2), Argentina (54), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (3), Canada (9: British Columbia), Chile (25), Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (9), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (132), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (6), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (16), North Atlantic (1), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia (2), South Africa (13), Spain (2), Switzerland (20), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (22), United States (268: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Argentina (4), Canada (6: British Columbia), Chile (5), India (3), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 739 collections including 848 occurrences

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