Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Synonym: Elymellidae Ulrich 1894
Parent taxon: Grammysioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Amler 2010, Bouchet et al. 2010, Gonzalez 2006, Morris et al. 1991, Nevesskaja 2009 and Newell 1965
Sister taxon: Grammysiidae
Subtaxa: Alulinae Elymella Leptodomus Palaeocorbula Paleodorinae Pholadellinae Sanguinolitinae Sueroa Undulomyinae Vacunellinae Verchanogrammysia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Permian of Argentina (5), Australia (166), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (2), Chile (1), China (41), Germany (2), Greece (2), Greenland (1), India (9), Indonesia (1), Italy (8), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Lithuania (3), Madagascar (1), Malaysia (3), Mexico (3), Mongolia (5), New Zealand (13), Oman (1), Pakistan (12), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (125), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (56: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (3)
• Namurian of Argentina (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (12), Australia (5), Belize (2), Brazil (2), Ireland (1), Japan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (30), United States (111: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Argentina (1), Australia (5), Brazil (7), Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), China (11), Germany (5), Luxembourg (1), New Zealand (4), South Africa (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (29: Alaska, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (1), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 739 collections including 916 occurrences