Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Full reference: J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar. 1976. The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 968:1-88
Parent taxon: Hippocardioidea according to A. V. Mazaev 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hoare and Peck 2005 and Pojeta and Runnegar 1976
Sister taxa: Hippocardiidae, Pseudobigaleaidae
Subtaxa: Agidelia Apotocardium Ashaconcha Bransonia Diedrorynchus Eusphairica Hoarepora Kyoconocardium Mulceodens Pojetaconcha Pseudoconocardium
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (24 collections), India (1), New Zealand (5), the Russian Federation (15), United States (4: Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (39: Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Ontario), United States (2: Illinois, New York)
• Whitwellian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, Indiana, Tennessee)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec), United States (11: New York, Vermont)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Estonia (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia)
• Cambrian of Australia (1)
Total: 133 collections including 144 occurrences