Pteriida Explained

The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine bivalve mollusks. It includes five families, among them the Pteriidae (pearl oysters and winged oysters).

2010 taxonomy

In 2010, a new proposed classification system for the Bivalvia was published by Bieler, Carter & Coan, revising the classification of the Bivalvia, including the suborder Pteriida.^[1]

Superfamily Ambonychioidea
- Family †Alatoconchidae^[2]
- Family †Ambonychiidae
- Family †Inoceramidae
- Family †Lunulacardiidae
- Family †Monopteriidae
- Family †Myalinidae
- Family †Mysidiellidae
- Family †Ramonalinidae
Superfamily Pinnoidea
- Family Pinnidae
Superfamily †Posidonioidea Neumayr, 1891
- Family †Posidoniidae Neumayr, 1891 (Devonian to Cretaceous)
- Family †Aulacomyellidae Ichikawa, 1958
- Family †Daonellidae Neumayr, 1891
- Family †Halobiidae Kittl, 1912 (Devonian to Triassic)
Superfamily Pterioidea
- Family †Bakevelliidae (Triassic to Eocene)
- Family †Cassianellidae (Middle to Late Triassic)
- Family †Kochiidae
- Family Malleidae
- Family †Pergamidiidae (Triassic to Cretaceous)
- Family †Plicatostylidae (Jurassic)
- Family †Posidoniidae
- Family †Pterineidae
- Family Pteriidae
- Family Pulvinitidae
- Family †Retroceramidae
Superfamily †Rhombopterioidea Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960
- Family †Rhombopteriidae Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960 (Silurian to Devonian)
- Family †Umburridae P. A. Johnston, 1991 (Silurian)

Notes and References

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. (2010) Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184
Asato . Kaito . Kase . Tomoki . Ono . Teruo . Sashida . Katsuo . Agematsu . Sachiko . 2017-10-01 . Morphology, Systematics and Paleoecology of Shikamaia, Aberrant Permian Bivalves (Alatoconchidae: Ambonychioidea) from Japan . Paleontological Research . 21 . 358–379 . 10.2517/2017PR002.