†family Wallowaconchidae Yancey and Stanley 1999 (clam)
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Wallowaconchidae
Full reference: T. E. Yancey and G. D. Stanley. 1999. Giant alatoform bivalves in the Upper Triassic of western North America. Palaeontology 42(1):1-23
Parent taxon: Megalodontoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Yancey and Stanley 1999
Sister taxa: Ceratomyopsidae, Dicerocardiidae, Gemmelarodus, Megalodontidae, Pachyrismatidae
Subtaxa: Wallowaconcha
Ecology: stationary epifaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (5: British Columbia, Yukon collections), India (1), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence