Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Synonym: Goniocardiidae Scarlato and Starobogatov 1979
Parent taxon: Cardioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Dockery 1982, Glenn 1904, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Harzhauser et al. 2008, Hickman 2015, Lehmann et al. 2022, Moneer et al. 2024, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Popenoe 1937, Ronchetti 1970, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Rosenberg 2005, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Scholz et al. 2008, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires 1999, Todd 2001, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Lahillidae, Pterocardiidae
Subtaxa: Austrocardium Cerastoderma Dochmocardia Europicardium Goethemia Goniocardium Hemicardium Indocardium Jurassicardium Laevicardiinae Lahilliinae Maoricardium Monodacna Neocardiids Obsoletiforma Obsoletiformes Papillicardium Papyridea Paradacna Parvicardium Parvidacna Pascoella Patagonicardium Perucardia Plagiocardium Protocardiinae Ringicardium Sawkinsia Serripes Trachycardiinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder