Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Alternative spelling: Vacunellidae
Synonym: Myoniinae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979
Parent taxon: Sanguinolitidae according to A. S. Biakov 2022
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011 and Morris et al. 1991
Sister taxa: Alulinae, Leptodomus, Palaeocorbula, Paleodorinae, Pholadellinae, Sanguinolitinae, Sueroa, Undulomyinae, Verchanogrammysia, Elymella
Subtaxa: Cunavella Myonia Pachymyonia Praemyonia Vacunella
Type: Vacunella
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Argentina (5 collections), Australia (142), Brazil (2), China (10), India (4), Italy (6), Japan (2), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (13), the Russian Federation (57), Thailand (1), United States (7: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (3), Australia (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Mexico)
Total: 257 collections including 344 occurrences