Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Parent taxon: Crassatellidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Moore 2003, Vokes 1980 and Wingard 1993
Sister taxa: Anthonya, Crassatellinae, Eucrassatella, Incatina, Pachythaerus, Ptychomyinae, Spissatella
Subtaxa: Crassinella Mediraon Remondia Scambula Stearnsia
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (7 collections), Cayman Islands (3), Costa Rica (3), Mexico (1), Panama (2), United States (73: California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (9), Ecuador (5), India (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (1), Panama (19), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (23: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (3), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (1), India (1), Panama (30), Trinidad and Tobago (10), United States (38: Florida, New Jersey, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Mexico (1), United States (35: Mississippi)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (58: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (51: Alabama, California, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 408 collections including 460 occurrences