Suborder Prospondyloidina Waller 2005 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida

Parent taxon: Pectinoida according to T. R. Waller 2012

Sister taxa: Anomiidina, Anshunopecten, Anshunopecten alternatoplicatus, Anshunopecten spinosus, Aulacomyelloidea, Aviculopectinidina, Chironopecten, Entoliidina, Halobioidea, Kolymopecten, Leiopectinoidea, Monotoidea, Pectinidina, Pteropiria, Streblopterinella

Subtaxa: Dimyoidea

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Costa Rica (3 collections), Panama (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Jamaica (1), Panama (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3)

• Miocene of Australia (3), the Dominican Republic (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (3)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (1), United States (7: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Australia (5), Bulgaria (3), New Zealand (1), Spain (3)

• Paleocene of Belgium (2), Denmark (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (4), Denmark (3), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Germany (10), India (3), Japan (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (6), the United Kingdom (2), United States (31: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas)

• Jurassic of Argentina (2), France (5), Germany (2), India (6), Italy (1), Portugal (3), Romania (1), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (3)

• Triassic of Austria (87), China (33), France (2), Germany (3), Hungary (8), Indonesia (4), Iran (6), Italy (13), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (1), the United Arab Emirates (4), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Alaska, California, Nevada)

Total: 317 collections including 330 occurrences

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