Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Synonyms: Lunulicardiidae Fischer 1887, Lunulicardiinae Fischer 1887
Parent taxon: Eucardiids according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Campbell and Engel 1963, Dockery 1982, Moore 2003, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Schneider 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Cardiinae, Cerastodermatinae, Clinocardiinae, Lymnocardiinae, Orthocardiinae, Profraginae, Trapezicardiinae, Tridacninae
Subtaxa: Acanthocardiini Americardia Chaenocardiola Chrysocardium Corculum Ctenocardia Fragini Fragum Goniocardiini Lunulicardia Lunulicardium Microfragum Nemocardium Trigoniocardia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (14 collections), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (2), Cayman Islands (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (4), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (4), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (2), Kenya (1), Mexico (3), Nauru (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (2), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (3), South Africa (1), United States (44: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (1), United States (3: California)
• Pliocene of Colombia (3), Costa Rica (12), the Dominican Republic (14), Ecuador (3), Haiti (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (6), Japan (7), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), Panama (9), the Philippines (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), United States (8: California, Florida, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (13)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (29), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (98), Ecuador (3), Grenada (1), Haiti (3), India (1), Indonesia (4), Japan (5), New Zealand (8), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Panama (109), Peru (2), the Philippines (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (7), Trinidad and Tobago (14), United States (26: Florida, Oregon), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (9: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (5), Jamaica (1), Japan (10), Mexico (3), Pakistan (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (75: Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), Egypt (3), France (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (3), Japan (8), Mexico (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (10), Nigeria (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (24), United States (176: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), United States (47: Alabama, California, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Brazil (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Denmark (1), Gabon (1), India (3), Japan (15), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (1), Oman (2), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (32: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Slovakia (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 1051 collections including 1152 occurrences