†superfamily Cyrtodontoidea Ulrich 1894 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida

Alternative spelling: Cyrtodontacea

Parent taxon: Cyrtodontidina according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bailey 1983, Bouchet et al. 2010, Newell 1965, Ride et al. 1999 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Falcatodontoidea, Pichlerioidea

Subtaxa: Cyrtodontidae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (3 collections), Oman (8)

• Virgilian of United States (1: Maryland)

• Carboniferous of China (1), France (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Maryland)

• Devonian of Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Ghana (1), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: New York, Pennsylvannia)

• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario), China (5), the Czech Republic (1), Jordan (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (16: Iowa, New York, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (20), Canada (47: British Columbia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (10), the Czech Republic (1), Morocco (1), Norway (21), Spain (1), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (11), United States (117: Colorado, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa)

• Chazy of Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), United States (6: New York)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)

Total: 302 collections including 480 occurrences

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