Parent taxon: Veneroitei according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Nevesskaja 2009
Sister taxa: Arcticoidea, Chamoidea, Cyrenoidea, Gaimardioidea, Glossoidea, Hemidonacoidea, Mactroidea, Veneroidea
Subtaxa: Ungulinidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Bermuda (1), Cayman Islands (2), Chile (4), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (1), Djibouti (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (2), Eritrea (2), Haiti (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mayotte (1), Mexico (6), Morocco (2), Mozambique (1), Namibia (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), South Africa (7), Spain (1), Taiwan (1), Turkey (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (70: Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (2), Yemen (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (3), Egypt (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (11), Jamaica (4), Japan (6), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (4), Pakistan (2), Panama (3), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (6), United States (30: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of Algeria (7), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (7), the Dominican Republic (3), Germany (3), India (4), Indonesia (5), Italy (4), Japan (27), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (12), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (20), Saudi Arabia (2), United States (79: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (9), Hungary (2), Japan (7), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (1), Panama (4), the Russian Federation (5), United States (34: Alabama, California, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Egypt (4), France (1), India (2), Japan (3), Libya (1), New Zealand (4), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (127: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), China (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (11: Alabama, California, Maryland, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Hungary (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (2), United States (12: California, Colorado, North Carolina)
Total: 687 collections including 816 occurrences