Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Parent taxon: Aviculopectinoidea according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Newell and Boyd 1995 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aviculopectinidae, Deltopectinidae, Limatulinidae
Subtaxa: Eumicrotis Prospondylus Pseudomonotinae Pseudomonotis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), France (1)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (7), Greenland (9), Kenya (2), Poland (1), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Tanzania (7), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), Croatia (5), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (5), Indonesia (6), Italy (11), Japan (2), New Zealand (2), Peru (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (20), Ukraine (2), United States (9: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), China (27), Germany (3), Greece (1), Greenland (10), India (4), Iran (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (2), Myanmar (1), Nepal (2), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (10), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (32), the United Kingdom (41), United States (103: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2), United States (28: Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 414 collections including 470 occurrences