Megatrigonia van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae

Parent taxon: Trigoniidae according to L. R. Cox 1952

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actinotrigonia, Asiatotrigonia, Buchotrigonia, Climacotrigonia, Eotrigonia, Geratrigonia, Heterotrigonia, Ibotrigonia, Korobkovitrigonia, Kyushutrigonia, Latitrigonia, Linotrigonia, Liotrigonia, Luxitrigonia, Lyroschizodus, Maputrigonia, Mesotrigonia, Microtrigonia, Minetrigonia, Minetrigoniinae, Myophorigonia, Neotrigonia, Neuquenitrigoniinae, Nipponitrigonia, Nototrigonia, Nototrigoniinae, Opisthotrigonia, Pacitrigonia, Pleurotrigoniinae, Prorotrigonia, Psilotrigoniinae, Quadratotrigonia, Quoiecchia, Rutitrigonia, Sichuantrigonia, Sphenotrigonia, Trigoniinae, Turbitrigonia, Lyrodon

Subtaxa: Megatrigonia (Apiotrigonia) Megatrigonia (Iotrigonia) Megatrigonia arsinoe Megatrigonia carrincurensis Megatrigonia conocardiiformis Megatrigonia discors Megatrigonia eximia Megatrigonia obesa Megatrigonia picunensis Megatrigonia pusilla Megatrigonia staffi

View classification

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Chile (2), India (2), Japan (36), New Zealand (7), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (5), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (2), USSR (1), Ukraine (1), United States (10: California, Oregon)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (3), India (1), Tanzania (2)

Total: 79 collections including 92 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.