Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Parent taxon: Corbulidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Squires and Saul 2004 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aloides, Anticorbula, Antiquicorbula, Bicorbula, Bothrocorbula, Caryocorbula, Caryocorbulinae, Concentricavalva, Coquandia, Corbula, Corbulamellinae, Corbulinae, Cuneocorbula, Cuspicorbula, Erodoninae, Exallocorbula, Ficusocorbula, Hexacorbula, Indocorbula, Juliacorbula, Lentidiinae, Lentidinae, Lhasanella, Nipponicorbula, Ostomya, Pachydontinae, Pachyrotunda, Panamicorbula, Pulsidis, Rostrocorbula, Semicorbula
Subtaxa: Caestocorbula Parmicorbula
Ecology: stationary infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Belgium (1 collection), France (20)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), France (1), India (4), Japan (7), New Zealand (3), the United Kingdom (8), United States (114: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Yemen (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)
• Paleocene of China (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), Gabon (1), India (3), Israel (15), Japan (4), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (281: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Portugal (11)
Total: 505 collections including 646 occurrences