†family Megatrigoniidae van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae

Synonym: Anditrigoniidae Leanza 1993

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Iotrigoniidae

Subtaxa: Anditrigonia Megatrigoniinae Pterotrigoniinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Argentina (8), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (3), Canada (8: British Columbia), Chile (24), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (123), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (6), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (14), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (20), United States (378: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (6), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Canada (6: British Columbia), Chile (5), India (3)

Total: 751 collections including 902 occurrences

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