Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Synonyms: Janacekiidae Ruzicka 1978, Janacekiinae Ruzicka 1978
Parent taxon: Solemyidae according to J. B. Bailey 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Acharacinae, Clinopisthinae, Ovatoconcha, Palaeosolemya, Trachyaspis turbulensis, Vorkutella, Zesolemya
Subtaxa: Acharax Mazonomya Solemya
Type: Solemya
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), Italy (1), United States (2: California, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Italy (1), Japan (8), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), United States (2: Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (2), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (28: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Cuba (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (12: Alabama, California, Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Greenland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (13: Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Greenland (5), Japan (9), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Türkiye (1), United States (41: Alabama, Arizona, California, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (2), Greenland (2), Japan (4), New Zealand (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), China (1), Hungary (6), Madagascar (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Permian of Australia (2), China (11), Hong Kong (1), Italy (4), Oman (2), the Russian Federation (9), the United Kingdom (6), United States (10: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of Brazil (1), China (1), India (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (27: Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia)
• Devonian of Brazil (19), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nunavut), South Africa (5), United States (2: Nevada, Virginia)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 315 collections including 333 occurrences