†family Pterotrigoniidae van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Pterotrigoniidae

Parent taxon: Megatrigonioidea according to B. Marshall et al. 2025

See also Cooper 2015 and Mendir et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Oistotrigoniinae Scabrotrigoniinae Ussuritrigonia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections), Antarctica (8), Argentina (7), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), Chile (2), Colombia (1), France (2), Germany (1), India (1), Japan (8), Madagascar (1), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (11), Papua New Guinea (1), South Africa (1), Switzerland (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (201: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (6)

• Jurassic of Japan (1)

Total: 270 collections including 280 occurrences

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