Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Synonym: Cyprinidae d'Orbigny 1844 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Arcticoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Gardner 2005, Nevesskaja 2009, Ronchetti 1970, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Stanton 1895 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Bernardinidae, Euloxidae, Pollicidae, Trapezidae, Veniellidae, Veniellinae
Subtaxa: Agapella Agelasina Ambonicardia Amiodon Anisocardia Anisocardioides Antarctica Antiquicyprina Aquilonia Arctica Coelocyprina Dietrichia Epicyprina Etea Fengjiachongia Gythemon Hartwellia Isocyprina Izumia Lilingella Loparia Microcyprina Mokattamia Petalocardia Plesiocyprina Procyprina Pronoella Proveniella Pseudotrapezium Pygocardia Rollierella Roudairia Schedotrapezium Somarctica Staffinella Tenea Tortarctica Vectianella Venericyprina Veniella Venilicardia Yunshania
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (2 collections), Greenland (1), Iceland (8), Ireland (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (6), the United Kingdom (7), United States (1: New York)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (9), Iceland (21), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: Alaska)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (2), Germany (1), India (3)
• Oligocene of Austria (3), Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Hungary (3), Ukraine (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (5), Egypt (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (4: New Jersey)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (4), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Afghanistan (3), Algeria (2), Angola (6), Argentina (15), Australia (1), Austria (2), Brazil (8), Cameroon (9), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (2), China (3), Colombia (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (3), the Czech Republic (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (50), France (13), Gabon (1), Germany (2), Greenland (3), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Japan (11), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Libya (4), Madagascar (4), Mexico (10), Morocco (1), Mozambique (4), the Netherlands (1), Niger (4), Nigeria (7), Pakistan (1), Peru (6), Poland (5), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (21), Senegal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (14), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (13), Switzerland (14), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (406: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (2), Zimbabwe (2)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Antarctica (1), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (48), China (17), Ethiopia (6), France (50), Germany (26), Greenland (89), Hungary (3), India (29), Iran (2), Japan (3), Jordan (3), Kenya (7), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (6), Poland (1), Portugal (46), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (16), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (8), Spain (68), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (9), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (10), Tunisia (45), the United Kingdom (92), United States (116: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1), Yemen (17)
• Triassic of Austria (67), China (2), Croatia (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Spain (7), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 1687 collections including 2197 occurrences