Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Alternative spelling: Permorphinae
Parent taxon: Permophoridae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Cox et al. 1969 and Morris et al. 1991
Sister taxa: Celtoides, Curionia, Healeyinae, Kalentera, Kalenterinae, Myoconcha, Myoconchinae, Permophorus, Pleurophorina, Pseudomyoconcha, Pseudopermophorus, Rimmyjimina, Terzileria, Triaphorus, Gujocardita, Cypricardites
Subtaxa: Bowlandia Neocypricardinia Ouamouia Pleurodapis Siliquimya Somareoides
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Caledonia (4 collections), Papua New Guinea (5)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of China (5), the United Kingdom (5)
• Devonian of Brazil (7), Ghana (1), Poland (3), South Africa (3), Turkey (1), United States (1: Florida), Uruguay (1)
Total: 37 collections including 38 occurrences