Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Synonym: Amussiidae Ridewood 1903
Parent taxon: Entolioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Beu et al. 1990, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, del Rio et al. 2008, Hickman 2023, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Maxwell 1992, Parker 1982, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Spencer et al. 2004, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Sundberg 1989, Todd 2001 and Waller 2011
Sister taxa: Entoliidae, Entolioidesidae, Pernopectinidae
Subtaxa: Catillopecten Chlamydella Cyclopecten Filamussium Parvamussium Propeamussium Similipecten
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), Costa Rica (4), Greece (1), Greenland (5), United States (6: Alaska, California, Maine)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (3), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (4), Jamaica (7), Panama (10), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (3), United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (24), Germany (1), Grenada (3), Haiti (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (19), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (15: California, Florida, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (1), Denmark (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (3), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (8: Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (2), France (1), Haiti (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (23: Alabama, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Australia (1)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (7), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Japan (1), Poland (2), United States (48: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (3)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), China (2), Denmark (1), Germany (4), Greenland (3), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (40), Jordan (1), New Zealand (8), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), United States (16: California, Colorado, Texas)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (12), Bulgaria (3), Canada (26: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (16), China (4), France (2), Germany (16), Greenland (4), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Japan (4), Luxembourg (2), New Zealand (1), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (7), Somalia (1), Spain (85), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (18), United States (1: California)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Germany (1), Iran (3), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Slovakia (1), United States (2: Alaska, Oregon)
Total: 579 collections including 604 occurrences