Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Parent taxon: Solemyoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Hayami and Kase 1977, Nevesskaja 2009, Raymond 1916, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Schultze 2004, Soot-Ryen and Soot-Ryen 1960 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Ovatoconchidae, Solemyidae
Subtaxa: Alococoncha Ctenodonta Ditichia Kazachia Kufralaria Mesoneilo Praectenodonta Sibiroctenia Tancrediopsis Tellinopsis
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Vietnam (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of United States (5: Indiana, Kentucky)
• Devonian of Australia (10), China (3), Germany (5), Libya (1), New Zealand (1), South Africa (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (26: Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (1)
• Silurian of Algeria (2), Argentina (4), Australia (6), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Canada (6: Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec), China (2), Jordan (4), Paraguay (2), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (39: Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Ohio)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Portugal (4), Spain (3)
• Uhaku of Norway (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (14: California, Minnesota, Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), United States (16: New York)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Bolivia (1), France (1), Morocco (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (10), Bolivia (2), Canada (38: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (7), the Czech Republic (11), France (4), Morocco (2), North Korea (3), Norway (21), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (1), Spain (4), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (99: Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (2), Bolivia (1)
Total: 408 collections including 490 occurrences