Bivalvia - Pectinida - Claraiidae
Parent taxon: Claraiidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Chuluariinae, Pseudoclaraiinae
Subtaxa: Claraiini Crittendenia
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 (6: 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 (17), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), 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: 894 collections including 1278 occurrences