Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Synonym: Anthraconautidae Kanev 1980
Parent taxon: Ambonychioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Anelli et al. 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, McRoberts and Newell 2005, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Ambonychiidae, Lunulacardiidae, Monopteriidae, Mysidiellidae, Ramonalinidae
Subtaxa: Anthraconauta Arctomyalina Aviculomyalina Boiomytilus Dorcadungula Elversella Hemimenion Liebea Myalina Naiadites Novaculapermia Pachymytilus Posidoniella Promyalina Pseudomyalina Pseudopachymytilus Selenimyalina Selenimyalininae Septimyalina
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (3 collections), Indonesia (1)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (61), Croatia (1), Germany (7), Greenland (83), Hungary (1), India (1), Israel (2), Italy (20), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Oman (12), the Russian Federation (49), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (25), United States (130: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (1)
• Permian to Triassic of China (10)
• Permian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (13), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Brazil (1), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), Chile (4), China (40), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Italy (5), Japan (2), Laos (1), Latvia (2), Lithuania (4), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (4), Nepal (1), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (8), Peru (2), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (22), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tanzania (5), Thailand (3), the United Kingdom (59), United States (123: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Chokierian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Namurian of Spain (3)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Belgium (1), Belize (2), Brazil (4), Canada (4: Alberta), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (4), India (1), Ireland (1), Mexico (4), Spain (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (56), United States (188: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of France (1), Libya (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: New York, Pennsylvannia)
• Ordovician of Sweden (1)
Total: 1020 collections including 1227 occurrences