Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Parent taxon: Pterinopectinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Natalissimidae, Pterinopectinidae
Subtaxa: Chuluariinae Claraiinae Pseudoclaraiinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic of Armenia (12), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (16), Bosnia and Herzegovina (4), Canada (9: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (282), Croatia (1), Greenland (165), Hungary (33), India (17), Indonesia (8), Iran (27), Italy (105), Japan (6), Jordan (4), Kazakhstan (4), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (7), Nepal (7), Norway (1), Oman (17), Pakistan (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (27), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (41: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (45)
• Permian to Triassic of India (4)
• Permian of China (23), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tunisia (3)
Total: 911 collections including 1298 occurrences