Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Alternative spelling: Sanguinolites (Goniophora)
Synonym: Mytilomorpha Hind 1899
Parent taxon: Modiomorphinae according to L. Liljedahl 1994
See also Cox et al. 1969, Galli 2013, Hoare 1993, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aleodonta, Callodonta, Colpomya, Eurymyella, Goniomorpha, Mimerodonta, Modiodonta, Modiolodon, Modiomorpha, Radiatodonta
Subtaxa: Goniophora (Cosmogoniophora) Goniophora (Goniophora) Goniophora alei Goniophora andersoni Goniophora ascia Goniophora bragei Goniophora brimeri Goniophora compta Goniophora gymeri Goniophora orientalis Goniophora perangulata Goniophora solci Goniophora thula Goniophora tyri
Type: Cypricardia cymbaeformis
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: California)
• Mississippian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Devonian of Australia (9), Brazil (4), Canada (4: Manitoba, Quebec), China (6), France (1), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (3), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (91: Alaska, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvannia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (4)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), China (3), the Czech Republic (1), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (27), United States (8: Alaska, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario), China (1), North Korea (1), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Arenig of Argentina (1)
Total: 202 collections including 216 occurrences
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