Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) Dietrich 1933 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae

Alternative spellings: Scabrotrigonia, Trigonia (Scabrotrigonia)

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox 1952, Dartevelle and Freneix 1957, Sepkoski 2002, Tashiro 1988, Tashiro and Kozai 1982 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Pterotrigonia (Acanthotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Ptilotrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Rinetrigonia), Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis, Pterotrigonia borgesi, Pterotrigonia crenulata, Pterotrigonia cristata, Pterotrigonia ethra, Pterotrigonia evansana, Pterotrigonia klamathonia, Pterotrigonia vaelsiensis, Pisotrigonia salebrosa, Rinetrigonia ventricosa, Notoscabrotrigonia tocaimaana

Subtaxa: Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) monobeana Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) pustulosa Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) scabra Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Argentina (1), Austria (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (25), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (17), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (3), Oman (4), Peru (9), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (175: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

Total: 251 collections including 295 occurrences

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