Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Synonym: Azoridae Leach 1852
Parent taxon: Tellinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Glenn 1904, Nevesskaja 2009, Olsson 1931, Rosenberg 2005, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Squires 1984, Squires 1987 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Donacidae, Icanotiidae, Quenstedtiidae, Semelidae, Solecurtidae, Sowerbyidae, Tancrediidae, Tellinidae, Unicardiopsidae
Subtaxa: Capsinae Gari Garinae Heterodonax Nuttallia Psammobiinae Psammotella Sanguinolariinae Sinopsammobia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Belgium (1), Chile (3), Cuba (1), Djibouti (3), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Thailand (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (23: California, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1), United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Belgium (5), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (1), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (11: California, Florida, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (4), the Dominican Republic (2), France (1), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (2), India (3), Indonesia (5), Italy (3), Japan (2), Mexico (2), Moldova (4), New Zealand (4), Pakistan (1), Panama (4), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (4), France (3), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (4), Turkey (1), United States (8: Alaska, Georgia, Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (6), Egypt (4), France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Panama (5), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (15), the United Kingdom (15), United States (98: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), China (1), Denmark (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Alabama, Alaska, California)
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), China (3), France (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (2), Switzerland (7)
• Jurassic of France (1)
Total: 404 collections including 450 occurrences