Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Alternative spelling: Ptychopteria (Actinopteria)
Full reference: J. Hall. 1884. Lamellibranchiata, I. Monomyaria of the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton, Portage and Chemung Groups . New York Geological Survey, Paleontology 5(1):1-268
Parent taxon: Pterineidae according to J. Nagel-Myers et al. 2018
See also Chen and Lan 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Actinodesma, Actinopterella, Actinopterellinae, Alnifia, Anderkenia, Barbosaia, Bolsopteria, Caneyella, Cheiopteria, Cliopteria, Cornellites, Cyrtodontarca, Denticelox, Dolichopteron, Ectenodesma, Eopterinea, Glyptodesma, Guichiella, Leiopteriinae, Leptodesma, Leptodesmatinae, Limoptera, Limopterinae, Merismopteria, Micropteriinae, Molinicola, Nennapteria, Oxytomoidea, Palaeopinna, Palaeopteria, Placopterina, Pseudobakewellia, Pterinea, Pteronitella, Pteronites, Pteronitina, Ptychopteria, Tolmaia, Wuxuanites, Ahtioconcha
Subtaxa: Actinopteria acinaces Actinopteria boydi Actinopteria pumila Actinopteria resplendens Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) problematica
Distribution:
• Permian of China (3 collections)
• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (41), United States (1: California)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (29), Brazil (4), Canada (2: Quebec), China (12), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (3), France (2), Germany (3), Italy (1), Libya (1), New Zealand (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (4), Spain (6), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (221: Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia), Venezuela (3)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Poland (1), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (2), Australia (1), China (3), the Czech Republic (5), Ireland (3), Italy (1), Norway (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (9: Florida, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Wisconsin)
Total: 407 collections including 421 occurrences
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