Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Synonym: Echinotis Marwick 1935
Parent taxon: Oxytomidae according to A. S. Dagis et al. 1996
See also Cox 1961, Marwick 1953, McRoberts 2011, Ronchetti 1970, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arctotis, Avicularca, Jianchuania, Maccoyellinae, Oxytoma, Oxytominae
Subtaxa: Echinotis echinata Meleagrinella antiqua Meleagrinella boehmi Meleagrinella curta Meleagrinella echinata Meleagrinella ferniensis Meleagrinella formosa Meleagrinella mclearni Meleagrinella omolonensis Meleagrinella ovalis Meleagrinella oxytomaeformis Meleagrinella polaris Meleagrinella substriata Meleagrinella tasaryensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (3), Canada (19: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (1), France (12), Germany (11), Greenland (4), India (17), Iran (1), Japan (7), Kenya (7), New Zealand (7), North Atlantic (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Poland (10), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (13), Saudi Arabia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Tanzania (25), the United Kingdom (89), United States (23: Alaska, California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (3), Canada (9: British Columbia, Nunavut), the Russian Federation (29), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Idaho, Nevada)
Total: 316 collections including 322 occurrences
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