Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Synonyms: Cytherodontidae Miller , Gruenewaldiidae Cooper 1991
Parent taxon: Trigonioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acanomyphoria Amlerella Atalantia Baidiostraca Caledogonia Costatoria Cytherodon Dolabra Elegantinia Erugonia Gruenewaldia Guizhoumyophoria Hefteria Heminajas Myophoria Neoschizodus Paraschizodus Rhenania Rhenanomya Toechomya Trionychodia Yangella
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (6: British Columbia collections), China (1), Indonesia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (15), Algeria (1), Austria (28), Bosnia and Herzegovina (10), Canada (10: British Columbia, Nunavut), Chile (2), China (114), Colombia (2), Croatia (6), Egypt (1), France (12), Germany (39), Greece (1), Hungary (123), India (2), Indonesia (23), Iran (26), Iraq (1), Israel (5), Italy (174), Japan (21), Jordan (4), Kazakhstan (3), Laos (3), Malaysia (3), Mexico (2), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (2), New Caledonia (7), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (11), Peru (3), Poland (4), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (47), Singapore (1), Slovenia (21), Spain (38), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Switzerland (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (3), Turkey (1), the United Arab Emirates (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (106: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (21)
• Permian to Triassic of China (16)
• Permian of China (6), Italy (1), Japan (4), Pakistan (2), United States (3: Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Australia (3), Brazil (1), China (3), Germany (3), Luxembourg (3), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Illinois)
• Ordovician of China (1), Sweden (1)
Total: 983 collections including 1430 occurrences