Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Parent taxon: Cardiidae according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, da Silva Forti 1969, Dockery 1982, Iqbal 1973, Olsson 1967, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Austrocardium, Cerastoderma, Dochmocardia, Europicardium, Goethemia, Hemicardium, Indocardium, Jurassicardium, Laevicardiinae, Lahilliinae, Maoricardium, Monodacna, Neocardiids, Obsoletiforma, Obsoletiformes, Papillicardium, Papyridea, Paradacna, Parvicardium, Parvidacna, Pascoella, Patagonicardium, Perucardia, Plagiocardium, Protocardiinae, Ringicardium, Sawkinsia, Serripes, Goniocardium
Subtaxa: Acrosterigma Dallocardia Trachycardium
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (6 collections), Brazil (2), Chile (8), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), Djibouti (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Eritrea (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Kenya (10), Mayotte (1), Mexico (16), Panama (2), Peru (7), Saudi Arabia (2), the Seychelles (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (4), Tonga (3), United States (86: California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2), Yemen (5)
• Blancan of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (6), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Chile (3), Colombia (6), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (3), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (3), Panama (9), Peru (1), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (21: California, Florida), Venezuela (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (4)
• Neogene of Chile (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (11), Australia (4), Brazil (9), Chile (6), Colombia (52), the Dominican Republic (40), Ecuador (2), France (3), Grenada (1), India (4), Indonesia (7), Japan (6), Pakistan (2), Panama (98), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (2), Somalia (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (2), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (55: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (12: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Haiti (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1), United States (18: California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of France (1), India (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (7), Panama (1), Romania (5), Senegal (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Germany (1), Nigeria (1)
• Cretaceous of Angola (4), Brazil (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), United States (257: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
Total: 917 collections including 1046 occurrences