†family Isoarcidae Keen 1969 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Isoarcidae

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Cadomiidae, Malletiidae, Nuculanidae, Palaeoneilidae, Phaseolidae, Polidevciidae, Sareptidae, Saturnidae, Yoldiidae, Zealedidae

Subtaxa: Isoarca

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Chile (1 collection), France (2)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (2), Germany (7), Hungary (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Triassic of Indonesia (1), Italy (1)

Total: 23 collections including 35 occurrences

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