Pteriida

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title: "Pteriida" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pteriida", "bivalve-orders"] description: "Order of bivalves" topic_path: "general/pteriida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteriida" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Order of bivalves ::

| image = Pinna Nobilis.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of Pinna nobilis in the Pinnidae | taxon = Pteriida | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = See text | synonyms = Pterioida | authority = Newell, 1965

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

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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.

• Superfamily Ambonychioidea
  • Family †Alatoconchidae
  • 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)

References

References

1. {{WRMS species. 212. ''Pterioida'' Newell, 1965. 9 July 2010
2. 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
3. Asato, Kaito. (2017-10-01). "Morphology, Systematics and Paleoecology of Shikamaia, Aberrant Permian Bivalves (Alatoconchidae: Ambonychioidea) from Japan". Paleontological Research.

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