Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Synonym: Ahtioconchidae Eberzin 1960
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1877. The American Palaeozoic fossils: a catologue of the genera and species. 2nd ed. 1-293
Parent taxon: Malleidina according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Amler 2010, Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Pinnoidea, Posidonioidea, Pterioidea, Rhombopterioidea
Subtaxa: Actinodesma Actinopterella Actinopterellinae Actinopteria Ahtioconcha Alnifia Anderkenia Barbosaia Caneyella Cliopteria Cornellites Cyrtodontarca Denticelox Dolichopteron Ectenodesma Guichiella Leiopteriinae Leptodesma Leptodesmatinae Limoptera Limopterinae Merismopteria Micropteriinae Molinicola Newsomella Palaeopinna Palaeopteria Placopterina Pseudobakewellia Pterinea Pteronitella Pteronites Pteronitina Ptychopteria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (3 collections), Germany (2), Malaysia (1)
• Permian of Argentina (2), Australia (33), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (2), China (20), Greece (4), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), Latvia (8), Lithuania (28), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (35), Tunisia (4), United States (31: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Virgilian of United States (40: Illinois, New Mexico, Texas)
• Atokan of United States (1: Ohio)
• Pennsylvanian of Argentina (1), China (1), Mexico (3)
• Westphalian of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Chesterian of United States (10: California, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Osagean of United States (1: Indiana)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Brazil (3), Canada (2: Alberta), China (1), Germany (2), Ireland (1), Mexico (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (64), United States (32: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kentucky, New Mexico, New mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, California)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Antarctica (1), Argentina (2), Australia (37), Brazil (4), Canada (15: Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (33), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (7), France (6), Germany (17), Ghana (1), Italy (2), Libya (9), Morocco (1), New Zealand (9), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (7), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (18), United States (545: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Venezuela (5), Vietnam (3)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Poland (3), Spain (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Algeria (2), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Canada (18: Anticosti, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), the Czech Republic (9), France (2), Greenland (1), Ireland (3), Italy (3), Jordan (1), Lithuania (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), Norway (4), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (6), Sweden (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (44), United States (110: Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Australia (5), Bolivia (1), Canada (28: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), Morocco (1), Norway (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (182: Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia)
Total: 1576 collections including 2044 occurrences