Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spelling: Cyclininae
Parent taxon: Meretricini according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Matsubara et al. 2010, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Perrilliat 1992, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Clementiina, Gemmina, Meretricina, Petricolina, Samarangiina, Sunettina, Turtoniina
Subtaxa: Cyclina Cyclinella Cyprimeria Luciploma
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (5 collections), Ecuador (1), India (1), Japan (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (5: California, Florida, Louisiana), Uruguay (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (4), Ecuador (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), Peru (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Miocene of Colombia (19), Ecuador (1), Haiti (1), India (2), Japan (22), Mexico (6), Panama (36), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Venezuela (9)
• Oligocene of Japan (1), Panama (1)
• Eocene of Japan (8), United States (17: California, Washington)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Mexico (6), the Netherlands (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (250: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 429 collections including 493 occurrences