Bivalvia - Pectinida - Deltopectinidae
Full reference: J. M. Dickins. 1957. Lower Permian pelecypods and gastropods from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 41:1-75
Parent taxon: Aviculopectinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Begg and Ballard 1991, Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Newell and Boyd 1995, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aviculopectinidae, Limatulinidae, Pseudomonotidae
Subtaxa: Cyrtorostrinae Deltopecten Deltopectininae Squamuliferipectininae Vorkutopecten
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian to Triassic of India (3 collections)
• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (81), Canada (3: Nunavut, Yukon), China (5), Greece (1), Greenland (1), India (6), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (2), Nepal (2), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (19), the Russian Federation (37), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), United States (71: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Pennsylvanian of China (1)
• Chesterian of United States (2: Arizona, Oklahoma)
• Mississippian of United States (2: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of United States (6: Arizona, California, Texas, West Virginia)
Total: 259 collections including 290 occurrences