Pterioida

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== left|thumb|Selection of members of the extinct Plicatostylidae 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)