Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Synonyms: Dermatomyidae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1983, Neaeroporomyidae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1983, Perlaporomyidae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1983
Parent taxon: Poromyoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxon: Cetoconchidae
Subtaxa: Cetoconcha Cetomyinae Cymella Liopistha Megaporomya Neaeroporomya Perlaporomya Poromya Pseudocuspidaria
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (5: California, Florida collections)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Miocene of Cyprus (1), Germany (4), Japan (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Denmark (3)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (3), Brazil (16), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (5), Canada (19: Alberta, British Columbia), China (1), Colombia (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (6), Gabon (5), Germany (1), India (1), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (5), Peru (12), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), USSR (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (211: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (1)
Total: 355 collections including 397 occurrences