Synonym: Lucinacea Fleming 1828 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Lucinida according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Abbott 1974, Adegoke 1977, Beu et al. 1990, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Dockery 1982, Glenn 1904, Maxwell 1992, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ride et al. 1999, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Stilwell et al. 2004, Vokes 1980, von Cosel 2006, Ward 1992 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Donacoidea, Kellioidea, Lucinidae, Mactromyoidea, Pisidioidea, Thyasiridae, Thyasiroidea
Subtaxa: Mactromyidae Paracyclidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Seychelles (1 collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of India (1), Spain (5)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (3), France (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (10), Mexico (1), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia (2), South Africa (1), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (7), the United Kingdom (27), United States (118: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (5), China (1), Denmark (6), Egypt (6), Eritrea (3), Ethiopia (10), France (7), Germany (7), Greenland (36), India (26), Iran (1), Jordan (8), Kenya (13), Madagascar (4), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), Portugal (15), Saudi Arabia (32), Serbia (2), Somalia (9), Spain (67), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Tanzania (5), Tunisia (24), the United Kingdom (38), United States (9: Utah, Wyoming), Yemen (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of United States (1: Alaska)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (9), Peru (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), United States (2: Utah)
• Carboniferous of China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Canada (13: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (17), Colombia (1), Czechia (3), France (3), Germany (7), Italy (1), Japan (1), Libya (1), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (165: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia), Venezuela (3), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6)
• Ordovician of China (2)
Total: 805 collections including 884 occurrences