†family Buchiidae Cox 1953 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae

Parent taxon: Buchioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hikuroa and Grant-Mackie 2008, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxon: Dolponellidae

Subtaxa: Allobuchia Anningella Aucellina Australobuchia Bittneria Buchia Eobuchiinae Hokonuia Malayomaorica Marwickiella Paraucellina Sichuania

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Motuan of New Zealand (12 collections)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (2), Australia (10), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (56: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (12), Ecuador (2), France (4), Germany (10), Greenland (44), Indian Ocean (1), Madagascar (1), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (39), Papua New Guinea (2), the Russian Federation (115), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (26), United States (126: Alaska, California, Oregon, Utah)

• Heterian of New Zealand (1)

• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of New Caledonia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, Oregon)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (7), Azerbaijan (2), Canada (19: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (6), Cuba (6), East Timor (1), Germany (17), Greenland (77), Indonesia (7), Mexico (2), New Zealand (40), Norway (1), Papua New Guinea (5), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (37), the United Kingdom (7), United States (113: Alaska, California, Oregon)

• Triassic of China (1), Italy (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (30), Pakistan (3), United States (1: Idaho)

Total: 881 collections including 1324 occurrences

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