†family Claraiidae Gavrilova 1996 (scallop)

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

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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

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