The Pteriida are an order of large and medium-sized marine bivalve molluskss. 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)

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