Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Buchiolidae
Alternative spelling: Buchiolinae
Full reference: M.C. Grimm. 1998. Systematik und Paläoökologie der Buchiolinae nov. subfam. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 118:1-176
Parent taxon: Praecardioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Jagt-Yazykova et al. 2006 and Kříž 2007
Sister taxa: Palaeocardiidae, Praecardiidae
Subtaxa: Buchiola Costacutia Disarnella Glyptohallicardia Levibuchiola Planocardia Porsugenia
Type: Buchiola
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories and Yukon collections), China (2), Czechia (3), France (2), Germany (21), Poland (2), South Africa (3), Spain (9), United States (8: Nevada, New York)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 55 collections including 68 occurrences