†subfamily Pterotrigoniinae van Hoepen 1929 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae

Synonym: Linotrigoniinae Yanin 2004

Parent taxon: Megatrigoniidae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Cooper et al. 1989, Leanza and Casadío 1991 and Tashiro 1988

Sister taxa: Megatrigoniinae, Anditrigonia

Subtaxa: Paulckella Pseudomyophorella Pterotrigonia Pterotrigoniini Scabrotrigoniini

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Angola (5), Antarctica (2), Argentina (8), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (8: British Columbia), Chile (20), Colombia (2), Cuba (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (30), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (4), Italy (2), Japan (123), Libya (4), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Mozambique (10), New Zealand (6), Oman (4), Peru (13), Portugal (4), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (14), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (29), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (20), United States (374: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Venezuela (6), Yemen (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Chile (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (8), Chile (4), India (3)

Total: 732 collections including 877 occurrences

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