Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Synonym: Hypogaeidae Rafinesque 1815
Parent taxon: Pholadoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Glenn 1904, Kennedy 1993, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Squires 1999, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Teredinidae, Xylophagaidae
Subtaxa: Cyrtopleura Dactylina Diplothyra Jouannetiinae Lignopholas Martesia Martesiinae Martesinae Opertochasma Pholadinae Teredina Xylophaginae Zirphaea
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (2), Iceland (1), Ireland (1), Japan (3), Mexico (8), Morocco (3), Namibia (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), South Africa (3), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (83: California, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), United States (2: Florida, Oregon)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), Japan (1), Panama (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (4), the United Kingdom (6), United States (15: Alaska, California, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (3: Alaska, California, Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (9), Argentina (8), Australia (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (2), Colombia (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Kazakhstan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (1), Moldova (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (6), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Ukraine (1), United States (11: Alaska, California, Delaware, Maryland)
• Neogene of Taiwan (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (2), France (1), Japan (1), Peru (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (11: California, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Argentina (3), France (2), Jamaica (1), Mali (1), Mexico (2), Peru (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (20: Alabama, California, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (3), Denmark (1), France (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (25: Alabama, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Cameroon (2), Canada (6: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Denmark (2), India (2), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (85: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Peru (1)
Total: 452 collections including 533 occurrences