Megatrigoniidae
| Megatrigoniidae Temporal range: from Jurassic to Cretaceous,
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| A fossil of Pterotrigonia caudata (Agassiz 1840) from the Isle of Wight at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Trigoniida |
| Superfamily: | † |
| Family: | †Megatrigoniidae Van Hoepen, 1929 |
Megatrigoniidae is an extinct family of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subclass Palaeoheterodonta. This family of bivalves is known in the fossil record from the Jurassic period, Tithonian age, to the Cretaceous period, Maastrichtian age. Species in this family were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.
Subfamilies and genera[]
Subfamilies and genera within the family Megatrigoniidae:
- van Hoepen 1929
- Cox 1952
- van Hoepen 1929
- Cooper et al. 1989
- Pterotrigonia van Hoepen 1929
Distribution[]
Fossils of this family have been found in Jurassic of Antarctica, Chile, India and in Cretaceous of Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Libya, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Russia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States and Yemen.
References[]
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- Prehistoric bivalve families
- Jurassic first appearances
- Cretaceous extinctions
- Trigoniida
- Fossils of Serbia
- Prehistoric bivalve stubs