Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Parent taxon: Tellinidae according to R. Bieler and P. M. Mikkelsen 2006
See also Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Freneix et al. 1988, Perrilliat 1992, Squires 1984, Vokes 1980, Ward 1992 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Acorylus, Ameritella, Arcopagia, Arcopagiinae, Barytellina, Cymatoica, Dellius, Florimetis, Fragilia, Gastrana, Idatellina, Lavignon, Lutricola, Macoma, Maera, Merisca, Metis, Nelltia, Peiricola, Serratina, Sourimis, Strigillinae, Tellina, Tellina obruta, Tellininae
Subtaxa: Apolymetis Bartrumia Bartschicoma Exotica Macalia Psammacoma Psammotreta Temnoconcha
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Belize (2), Cayman Islands (2), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (3), Egypt (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Mexico (6), Namibia (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), South Africa (5), Thailand (1), United States (37: California, Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (6), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (7), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (4), Iran (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (6), United States (22: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Brazil (3), Colombia (23), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (2), Germany (1), India (6), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Mexico (6), New Zealand (3), Panama (75), Peru (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Trinidad and Tobago (5), United States (81: California, Florida, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (8)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (2), United States (26: California, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of Peru (2), United States (3: California)
Total: 397 collections including 439 occurrences