Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Parent taxon: Astartidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Vokes 1980 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: Alleinacin, Astartella, Astartellinae, Astartoides, Astartopsis, Balantioselena, Digitaria, Ensio, Eriphylinae, Flattopia, Goodallia, Lirotarte, Lyapinella, Middalya, Nargunella, Neocrassina, Opinae, Oxyeurax, Permartella, Pinzonellinae, Praeconia, Pressastarte, Radiastarte, Taxocardia, Terraiinae, Trigonopinae, Woodia
Subtaxa: Astarte Astartopis Coelastarte Gonilia Megapraeconia Nicaniella Notoastarte Parisiella Prorokia Seendia Sita Yabea
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (36: Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Quebec), Greenland (41), Iceland (4), India (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (6), Spain (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (51: Alaska, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Belgium (8), France (6), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (7), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (10), United States (54: Alaska, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (5: Alaska)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Belgium (3), Cyprus (3), Denmark (2), France (1), Germany (50), India (9), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (4), the Russian Federation (2), United States (88: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (7), Hungary (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (47: Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), Greenland (1), Pakistan (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (20: Alabama, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (5), Denmark (5), Egypt (1), India (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Georgia, Maryland, Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Argentina (4), Australia (1), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (3), Canada (4: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (4), China (2), Colombia (3), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), Cuba (1), Denmark (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), France (9), Germany (12), Greenland (5), Hungary (2), India (2), Indian Ocean (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), Japan (42), Mexico (4), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (25), Nigeria (10), Peru (1), Poland (7), Portugal (3), the Russian Federation (38), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Switzerland (10), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (79: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Heterian of New Zealand (1)
• Temaikan of New Zealand (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Bulgaria (4), Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (19), China (7), Denmark (8), Egypt (3), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (3), France (27), Germany (54), Greenland (83), Hungary (1), India (112), Iran (4), Italy (3), Japan (8), Kenya (9), Luxembourg (5), Madagascar (8), Mexico (3), Morocco (9), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (18), Peru (2), Poland (5), Portugal (86), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (12), Saudi Arabia (6), Slovenia (1), Somalia (7), Spain (57), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), Sweden (1), Switzerland (29), Tanzania (21), Thailand (5), Tunisia (5), the United Kingdom (99), United States (55: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (1)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Singapore (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (5), Germany (2), Indonesia (2), Japan (1), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)
• Devonian of Poland (1)
Total: 1694 collections including 2239 occurrences