†family Myophoriidae Bronn 1847 (clam)

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

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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

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