Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Synonym: Anatinidae Gray 1840 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Pandoroidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Aberhan 2004, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Adelosiphonia, Lyonsiidae, Pandoridae
Subtaxa: Anatimya Cercomya Laternula Orthomya Periplomya Planariomya Platymyoidea Plectomya Tulongella
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (2 collections), Australia (1), Pakistan (1)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1)
• Miocene of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (1: Alberta), Cuba (1), Egypt (4), France (1), India (1), Italy (2), Japan (20), Lebanon (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (3), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (109: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Chile (30), China (1), Ethiopia (2), France (8), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (4), Kenya (2), Mexico (3), Portugal (24), Somalia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tanzania (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (14: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (3)
• Triassic of China (2), Iran (2), Italy (3), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 297 collections including 353 occurrences