Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae
Synonyms: Pliocardiidae Woodring 1925, Vesicomyacidae Dall
Parent taxon: Glossoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Kiel 2007, Nevesskaja 2009, Olsson 1931, Parker 1982, Squires and Goedert 1991 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Glossidae, Kelliellidae
Subtaxa: Akebiconcha Archivesica Hubertschenckia Isorropodon Pleurophopsis Pliocardiinae Vesicomya
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (4: California collections)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (3), Mexico (1), United States (3: California)
• Miocene of Cuba (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (8), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (3: Alaska, California, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (3), Japan (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (15: Alaska, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Japan (4), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (10: California, Washington)
• Cretaceous of Japan (1)
Total: 76 collections including 96 occurrences