†family Terquemiidae Cox 1964 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Terquemiidae

Parent taxon: Pectinacea according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Entolioididae, Huncalotis, Neitheoidae, Pectinoidae, Protopalliolum, Deltopectenidae, Inoceramus auriculatus, Newellipecten, Fasciculiconcha, Dreisseniidae, Pecten politus

Subtaxa: Gerlus Newaagia

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), Denmark (3), France (3), Germany (1), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1)

• Triassic of China (21), Germany (9), Hungary (2), Iran (12), Italy (6), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (3), United States (11: Nevada)

Total: 83 collections including 124 occurrences

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