Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Parent taxon: Claraiinae according to J. B. Waterhouse 2001
Sister taxon: Crittendenia
Subtaxa: Claraia Epiclaraia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic of Armenia (8), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (20), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (279), Croatia (1), Greenland (165), Hungary (33), India (16), Indonesia (4), Iran (28), Italy (105), Japan (4), Jordan (4), Kazakhstan (3), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (7), Nepal (4), Norway (1), Oman (17), the Russian Federation (17), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (10), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (33: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (9)
• Permian to Triassic of India (4)
• Permian of China (23), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tunisia (3)
Total: 828 collections including 1187 occurrences