Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Synonyms: Cucullariinae Habe 1977, Nordenskjoeldiidae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979, Nordenskjoeldiinae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979, Obliquidontinae Astafieva-Urbajtis 1994
Parent taxon: Parallelodontidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Hickman 2023, Moore 1983, Vokes 1980 and Yamani 1982
Sister taxa: Alytodonta, Bapristodia, Cosmetodon, Cucullaria, Cucullopsis, Kamenevus, Macrodontella, Parallelodontinae, Pleurogrammatodon, Porterius, Spitionella
Subtaxa: Aptolinter Catellini Cryptochasma Grammatodon Grammatodontini Nanonavis Nemodon Nemodontini Nordenskjoeldia Notogrammatodon Obliquidon Pseudogrammatodon Pseudomacrodon Stenocolpus Torinosucatella
Type: Grammatodon
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Japan (2)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (5)
• Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Eocene of Australia (6), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Alabama, Texas)
• Paleocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (7: California, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (6), Argentina (10), Australia (2), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), China (2), Colombia (1), Denmark (3), France (5), Germany (2), India (4), Israel (10), Italy (2), Japan (39), Jordan (4), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (6), New Zealand (8), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (280: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Heterian of New Zealand (2)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (8), Bulgaria (4), Canada (19: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (4), China (4), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), France (27), Germany (42), Greenland (54), Hungary (1), India (113), Iran (1), Italy (5), Japan (6), Kenya (6), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (12), Mexico (5), Morocco (2), New Zealand (12), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (4), Portugal (46), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (11), Spain (94), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (12), Tanzania (17), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (63), United States (28: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1), Yemen (16)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), China (4), Iran (4), Italy (5), Malaysia (1), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of China (5), Greece (6), United States (2: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Kentucky)
• Devonian of United States (20: Nevada, New York)
• Paleozoic of Chile (1)
Total: 1152 collections including 1304 occurrences