Superfamily Plicatuloidea Gray 1857 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida

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

See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010 and Nevesskaja 2009

Sister taxon: Prospondyloidea

Subtaxa: Chondrodontidae Plicatulidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Bermuda (2 collections), Brazil (3), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (4), Egypt (1), Eritrea (4), Japan (3), Kenya (5), Mexico (1), Pakistan (2), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), United States (39: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (1), Yemen (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (4)

• Pliocene of Colombia (4), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Greece (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (41: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (8)

• Miocene of Brazil (9), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (2), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Indonesia (2), Mexico (1), Moldova (4), Panama (4), Poland (5), Slovakia (1), United States (12: Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (20)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (5: Mississippi, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene of Australia (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (7), France (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Mexico (6), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), United States (84: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Belgium (3), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Mali (2), Nigeria (1), United States (10: Alabama, California)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Angola (1), Argentina (15), Brazil (12), Cameroon (14), China (1), Colombia (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (75), Ethiopia (1), France (14), Gabon (2), Germany (3), Guatemala (1), Hungary (1), India (3), Italy (14), Japan (4), Jordan (4), Libya (3), Madagascar (5), Mexico (19), New Zealand (4), Nigeria (17), Oman (2), Peru (15), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (3), Turkey (1), USSR (8), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (171: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Utah), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (27), Bulgaria (4), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (32), China (2), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (2), France (27), Germany (39), Greenland (37), India (19), Israel (1), Italy (4), Japan (4), Kenya (1), Madagascar (4), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), Portugal (58), the Russian Federation (7), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (94), the United Kingdom (41), United States (25: Alaska, Utah, Wyoming)

• Triassic of Austria (79), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (20), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (12), Italy (21), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (13: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon)

Total: 1441 collections including 1641 occurrences

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