Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Parent taxon: Myophorelloidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and PĂ©rez et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Buchotrigoniidae, Laevitrigoniidae
Subtaxa: Myophorellinae Steinmanellinae Vaugoniinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (40), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (27), India (1), Japan (10), Mexico (1), South Africa (3), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (14)
• Heterian of New Zealand (8)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (5)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Argentina (1), Chile (4), Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (11), Argentina (31), Canada (88: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (55), China (1), Cuba (1), France (36), Germany (7), Greenland (12), India (16), Iran (5), Japan (27), Kenya (1), Luxembourg (4), Madagascar (3), Mexico (4), New Zealand (19), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (24), Spain (34), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (2), Thailand (3), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (70), United States (125: Alaska, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)
Total: 734 collections including 848 occurrences