†superfamily Chaenocardioidea Miller 1889 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Aviculopectinoidea, Heteropectinoidea, Pterinopectinoidea

Subtaxa: Binipectinidae Chaenocardiidae Streblochondriidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Japan (5 collections)

• Permian of Australia (62), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (72), Croatia (1), Germany (2), Greece (5), Greenland (2), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (6), Laos (2), Lithuania (4), Mexico (2), Mongolia (1), Nepal (6), New Zealand (15), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (6), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (58), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (19), United States (106: Alaska, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)

• Namurian of Australia (3)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California)

• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (14), Australia (11), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Chile (1), China (5), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (1), India (1), Ireland (3), Mexico (2), Peru (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (55), United States (54: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)

• Devonian of Germany (4), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 562 collections including 669 occurrences

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