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, Florimetis, Fragilia, Gastrana, Idatellina, Lavignon, Lutricola, Macoma, Maera, Merisca, Metis, Nelltia, Peiricola, Serratina, Sourimis, Strigillinae, Tellina, Tellininae
Subtaxa: Apolymetis Bartrumia Exotica Macalia Psammotreta Temnoconcha
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Belize (2), Cayman Islands (2), Ecuador (3), Egypt (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Mexico (6), Namibia (1), Panama (2), Peru (1), South Africa (5), Thailand (1), United States (21: California, Florida), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1)
• Pliocene of Chile (6), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (4), Iran (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (6), United States (8: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Colombia (6), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Germany (1), India (6), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (3), Panama (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (26: California)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (2), United States (21: California, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of United States (3: California)
Total: 178 collections including 186 occurrences