Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Parent taxon: Psammobiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Squires 1984 and Squires 1987
Sister taxa: Capsinae, Gari, Garinae, Heterodonax, Nuttallia, Psammotella, Sanguinolariinae, Sinopsammobia
Subtaxa: Amphichaena Asaphinella Asaphis Ascitellina Heteroglypta Liodonax Macrosolen
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Jordan (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Colombia (2), India (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (1), the Philippines (1), United States (2: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (4), Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Egypt (2), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 33 collections each including a single occurrence