Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Synonyms: Amphidesmatidae Latreille 1825, Lavignonidae Récluz 1869
Parent taxon: Tellinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Glenn 1904, Nevesskaja 2009, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Donacidae, Icanotiidae, Psammobiidae, Quenstedtiidae, Solecurtidae, Sowerbyidae, Tancrediidae, Tellinidae, Unicardiopsidae
Subtaxa: Abra Cumingia Ervilia Erviliinae Lavignonus Leptomya Ligula Scrobiculariinae Semele Semelina Semelinae Septeuilia Theora
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Belgium (1), Brazil (2), Cayman Islands (3), Chile (8), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (2), France (2), French Polynesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (11), the Netherlands (5), Panama (3), Peru (2), Poland (7), Portugal (3), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Thailand (3), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (16), United States (146: California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Mexico (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), Chile (2), Costa Rica (4), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (4), Iceland (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (5), Japan (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (12), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (16), the United Kingdom (4), United States (36: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Austria (3), Belgium (10), Brazil (2), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (13), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (2), the Dominican Republic (5), Ecuador (4), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (26), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (99), Peru (1), Poland (6), Romania (6), Trinidad and Tobago (7), Ukraine (1), United States (66: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (5: Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (2), France (26), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (2), United States (53: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Colombia (1), France (2), Panama (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (79: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Alabama, Texas)
Total: 824 collections including 1171 occurrences