Bivalvia - Cardiida - Donacidae
Parent taxon: Tellinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Olsson 1931, Saul 1989, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Icanotiidae, Psammobiidae, Quenstedtiidae, Semelidae, Solecurtidae, Sowerbyidae, Tancrediidae, Tellinidae, Unicardiopsidae
Subtaxa: Adelodonax Deltachion Donax Egerella Hemidonax Iphigenia Macrodonax Notodonax Plebidonax Protodonax Tentidonax
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections), Belgium (1), Brazil (4), Chile (2), Colombia (1), Djibouti (2), France (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Mexico (5), Morocco (7), Mozambique (1), Namibia (8), the Netherlands (6), Panama (1), Peru (3), South Africa (9), Spain (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (69: California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (3)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (2), Italy (3), Jamaica (2), South Africa (7), Trinidad and Tobago (16), the United Kingdom (4), United States (8: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), Brazil (1), Colombia (11), the Dominican Republic (4), France (2), Germany (1), Grenada (1), India (3), Iran (5), Japan (1), Panama (8), Poland (3), Romania (1), South Africa (1), Ukraine (1), United States (14: California, Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of China (1), Peru (1), United States (11: Mississippi, North Carolina)
• Eocene of France (2), Peru (3), United States (7: Alabama, California, Texas)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Cuba (1), Jamaica (2), Lebanon (1), Mexico (2), Peru (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (43: California, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
Total: 336 collections including 402 occurrences