†family Hippopodiidae Cox 1969 (clam)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Parent taxon: Crassatellacea according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Nevesskaja 2009 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Aenigmoconchidae, Astartidae, Cardiniidae, Carditidae, Condylocardiidae, Crassatellidae, Myophoricardiidae
Subtaxa: Hippopodium
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections), Greenland (25), Tanzania (8), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 39 collections including 40 occurrences