Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Full reference: F. B. Meek. 1864. Section 1. Description of the Carboniferous fossils. Palaeontology of California 1:3-16
Parent taxon: Aviculopectinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Newell and Boyd 1995, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Deltopectinidae, Limatulinidae, Pseudomonotidae
Subtaxa: Amphijanira Antijanirini Aviculopecten Aviculopectininae Chaenocardiinae Clavicosta Echiniferipectininae Euchondriinae Eumorphotis Globodiscini Hayasakapectininae Imoella Neopecten Ornithopecten Paradoxipecten Primahinnites Qinghaipecten Spyridopectininae Undopectininae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (6 collections), United States (1: Kansas)
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Azerbaijan (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (10), Bulgaria (3), Canada (2: British Columbia), China (133), Croatia (4), East Timor (1), Germany (1), Greenland (6), Hungary (34), India (11), Indonesia (2), Iran (6), Italy (81), Japan (11), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (8), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Oman (10), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (15), Singapore (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (23), Thailand (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), United States (127: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (3)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (10), Bolivia (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (99), Croatia (1), Hungary (9), India (10), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (35), Japan (15), Laos (4), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (3), Mexico (1), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (1), Nepal (6), Pakistan (30), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (34), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (177: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (1)
• Chokierian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (3: California, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Australia (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (3), Canada (1: Alberta), Chile (1), China (3), Germany (1), India (4), Ireland (3), Mexico (12), South Korea (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (32), United States (225: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Manitoba, Quebec), Colombia (1), France (2), Germany (4), Italy (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (36: Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian of United States (1: California)
Total: 1320 collections including 1642 occurrences