Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Invalid subtaxa: Gnathodontidae Neumayr 1884 [replaced name], Rangiidae Fischer 1884
Parent taxon: Mactroidea according to J. H. Signorelli and J. G. Carter 2016
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Glenn 1904, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Hickman 2015, Nevesskaja 2009, Olsson 1931, Packard 1916, Popenoe 1937, Rosenberg 2005, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Squires 1987, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Anatinellidae, Cardiliidae, Mesodesmatidae
Subtaxa: Darcinia Darininae Gnathodon Hemimactra Leptomactra Longimactra Lutrariinae Mactrinae Mactropsis Mactrotoma Mulinia Mulinoides Pteroluter Pteropsis Rangia Scissodesma Simomactra Spisula Tanysiphoninae Willimactra Zenatiinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (2 collections), Argentina (7), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Brazil (14), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Chile (12), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Djibouti (3), Ecuador (4), Egypt (1), France (1), Iceland (2), India (1), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (7), Mexico (9), Morocco (5), Namibia (3), the Netherlands (6), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (2), Panama (2), Peru (16), Poland (6), South Africa (13), Spain (2), Thailand (2), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (23), United States (252: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Uruguay (3), Yemen (1)
• Blancan of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), Malaysia (4), United States (11: California, Florida, Oregon, Washington)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Belgium (8), Chile (7), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Greece (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Iceland (7), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (8), Pakistan (3), Panama (1), Peru (5), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (8), Trinidad and Tobago (9), the United Kingdom (11), United States (110: California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (17: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Argentina (8), Australia (15), Austria (10), Belgium (13), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Chile (9), Colombia (15), Croatia (1), Cyprus (3), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Ecuador (3), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (21), Greece (4), Hungary (1), India (6), Indonesia (2), Iran (5), Italy (7), Japan (22), Mexico (6), Moldova (3), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (13), Pakistan (1), Panama (37), Peru (3), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (27), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4), United States (164: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (5)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Austria (1), Canada (4: British Columbia), France (4), Hungary (2), Japan (9), New Zealand (6), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (5), United States (103: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (12), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Canada (1: British Colombia), Colombia (6), Egypt (1), France (3), Japan (6), Mexico (2), Namibia (1), New Zealand (9), Nigeria (5), Pakistan (1), Panama (8), Peru (9), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (8), United States (247: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (4)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), New Zealand (2), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (6: California, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (21: Alberta, Saskatachewan), Chile (3), Colombia (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Japan (6), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (2), Nigeria (3), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (532: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
Total: 2179 collections including 3070 occurrences