†superfamily Cardioloidea Hoernes 1884 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida

Parent taxon: Praecardioidei according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Kříž 2007

Sister taxa: Praecardioidea, Praecardiida

Subtaxa: Cardiolidae Slavidae

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Type: Cardiola

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Morocco (2 collections), United States (2: Iowa, Missouri)

• Devonian of Germany (4), United States (10: New York)

• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (1), Italy (1), Mauritania (1)

• Silurian of Algeria (4), Austria (8), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (1), Czechia (52), Estonia (1), France (4), Germany (2), Italy (13), Lithuania (6), Morocco (20), Poland (8), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (17), United States (1: Maine), Western Sahara (1)

Total: 162 collections including 307 occurrences

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