Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Synonym: Linotrigoniinae Yanin 2004
Parent taxon: Megatrigoniidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Cooper 2015, Cooper et al. 1989, Leanza and CasadÃo 1991 and Tashiro 1988
Sister taxa: Megatrigoniinae, Anditrigonia
Subtaxa: Linotrigoniini Paulckella Pseudomyophorella Pterotrigonia Pterotrigoniini Scabrotrigoniini
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Angola (3), Antarctica (2), Argentina (52), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (9: British Columbia), Chile (21), Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (9), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (123), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (6), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (16), North Atlantic (1), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia (2), South Africa (13), Spain (2), Switzerland (20), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (22), United States (265: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Chile (4), India (3)
Total: 703 collections including 804 occurrences