Pteriida

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.


 * 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)