†family Pseudomonotidae Newell 1938 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae

Parent taxon: Aviculopectinoidea according to S. Ros-Franch et al. 2014

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Newell and Boyd 1995 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Aviculopectinidae, Deltopectinidae, Limatulinidae

Subtaxa: Eumicrotis Prospondylus Pseudomonotinae Pseudomonotis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), France (1)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (7), Greenland (9), Kenya (2), Poland (1), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Tanzania (7), the United Kingdom (8)

• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), Croatia (5), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (5), Indonesia (6), Italy (11), Japan (2), New Zealand (2), Peru (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (20), Ukraine (2), United States (9: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)

• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), China (27), Germany (3), Greece (1), Greenland (10), India (4), Iran (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (2), Myanmar (1), Nepal (2), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (10), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (32), the United Kingdom (41), United States (103: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)

• Virgilian of United States (7: Illinois, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Kansas, Ohio)

• Atokan of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2), United States (19: Alabama, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Utah)

Total: 414 collections including 470 occurrences

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