†superfamily Pterinopectinoidea Newell 1938 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida

Parent taxon: Aviculopectinoidei according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Amler 2010, Bouchet et al. 2010, Kotlyar et al. 2004, Nevesskaja 2009 and Newell and Boyd 1995

Sister taxa: Aviculopectinoidea, Chaenocardioidea, Heteropectinoidea

Subtaxa: Claraiidae Natalissimidae Pterinopectinidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (8)

• Triassic of Armenia (12), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (16), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (282), Croatia (1), Greenland (165), Hungary (33), India (17), Indonesia (8), Iran (27), Italy (105), Japan (6), Jordan (4), Kazakhstan (4), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (7), Nepal (9), Norway (1), Oman (17), Pakistan (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (27), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (41: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (45)

• Permian to Triassic of India (4)

• Permian of China (28), Hungary (1), Nepal (2), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (4), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (14: Alaska, Nevada, Texas)

• Virgilian of United States (19: Maryland, New Mexico, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Kansas)

• Pennsylvanian of Mexico (1)

• Chesterian of United States (1: Arizona)

• Mississippian of United States (4: Alaska, California)

• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), China (1), Germany (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (40), United States (32: Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)

• Devonian of Australia (5), Brazil (2), Canada (3: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario), China (10), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Germany (8), Libya (4), New Zealand (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (123: Alaska, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia), Venezuela (4)

• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)

• Silurian of China (2), the Czech Republic (7), Italy (1), Poland (2)

Total: 1241 collections including 1678 occurrences

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