The Pteriida are an

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...

of large and medium-sized

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military ...

bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of marine and freshwater Mollusca, molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hing ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s. 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. *Superfamily Ambonychioidea **Family †

Alatoconchidae Alatoconchidae is an extinct family of prehistoric bivalves that lived in the early to middle Permian period. Genera belonging to Alatoconchidae are characterized by their shell that is strongly compressed in the dorsoventral direction. Some spec ...

**Family † Ambonychiidae **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 Bakevelliidae is an extinct family of prehistoric bivalves that lived from the Late Mississippian until the Middle Eocene.Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest per ...

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', ...

) **Family †

Cassianellidae Cassianellidae is a small extinct family of prehistoric bivalves which lived from the Middle Triassic, Ladinian stage through the Late Triassic Norian stage.

(Middle to Late Triassic) **Family † Kochiidae **Family Malleidae **Family † Pergamidiidae (Triassic to

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

) **Family † Plicatostylidae (

Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The J ...

) **Family † Posidoniidae **Family † Pterineidae **Family Pteriidae **Family Pulvinitidae **Family † Retroceramidae *Superfamily † Rhombopterioidea Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960 **Family † Rhombopteriidae Korobkov in Eberzin, 1960 (

Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozo ...

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...

) **Family † Umburridae P. A. Johnston, 1991 (Silurian)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q136045 Bivalve orders