Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Parent taxon: Mactridae according to J. H. Signorelli and J. G. Carter 2016
See also Adegoke 1977, Beu 2006, Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Coan et al. 2000, da Silva Forti 1969, Glenn 1904, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Maxwell 1978, Moore 2003, Packard 1916, Perrilliat 1992, Squires 1987, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Darcinia, Darininae, Hemimactra, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactropsis, Mactrotoma, Mulinia, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Rangia, Scissodesma, Simomactra, Spisula, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon
Subtaxa: Aliomactra Allomactra Andrusella Avimactra Crepispisula Cryptomactra Cymbophora Diaphoromactra Eopapyrina Geltena Harvella Labiosa Mactra Mactrellona Mactrinula Mactrodesma Mactromeris Nannomactra Notospisula Nymphactra Ovamactra Oxyperas Priscomactra Pseudocardium Scalpomactra Standella Stereomactra Telemactra Trinitasia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Argentina (5), Australia (5), Belgium (1), Brazil (14), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), China (1), Djibouti (3), Ecuador (2), Egypt (1), France (1), India (1), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Japan (6), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), South Africa (9), Spain (2), Thailand (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (51: Alaska, California, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon), Uruguay (3)
• Blancan of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4), United States (6: California, Oregon, Washington)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (5), Ecuador (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (2), New Zealand (4), Pakistan (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (4), the United Kingdom (7), United States (31: California, Oregon)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: California)
• Miocene of Argentina (8), Australia (8), Austria (3), Belgium (5), Brazil (4), Bulgaria (1), Chile (8), Colombia (7), Croatia (1), Cyprus (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), France (1), Georgia (1), India (6), Indonesia (2), Iran (4), Japan (14), Mexico (6), New Zealand (7), Pakistan (1), Panama (20), Peru (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (26), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4), United States (77: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (3: British Columbia), France (4), Japan (7), New Zealand (3), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (3), United States (72: Alaska, California, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (12), Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Colombia), Colombia (5), Egypt (1), Japan (3), Mexico (2), Namibia (1), New Zealand (7), Panama (8), Peru (6), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (138: California, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (2), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (6: California, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Canada (21: Alberta, Saskatachewan), Chile (3), Colombia (1), France (1), Greenland (1), Japan (6), Lebanon (1), Nigeria (2), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (511: 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: 1313 collections including 1751 occurrences