Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
in Raymond (1916), Family: Conocardiidae was named by Neumayr (1891)
Full reference: S. A. Miller. 1889. North American geology and palaeontology for the use of amateurs, students and scientists 1-664
Parent taxon: Conocardioidea according to J. Pojeta and B. Runnegar 1976
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Isberg 1934, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Raymond 1916
Sister taxon: Arceodomidae
Subtaxa: Aphelakardia Conocardium Leptoconocardium Minycardita Pseudomulceodens
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (10 collections), Canada (1: Alberta), India (1), Indonesia (2), New Zealand (3), Peru (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (5: Alaska, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Laos (1), United States (2: California)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), Libya (1), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (49: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Australia (12), Austria (1), Canada (4: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, New York)
• Silurian of Brazil (1), the Czech Republic (2), Poland (1), Sweden (6), United States (7: Alaska, California, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of United States (3: Indiana, Virginia)
Total: 154 collections including 166 occurrences