Alternative spelling: Anthracosiacea
Parent taxon: Anthracosiidina according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Opokielloidea, Palaeanodontoidea, Prilukielloidea
Subtaxa: Anthracosiidae Carbonicolidae Ferganoconchidae Shaanxiconchidae Sinomyidae Yananoconcha
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Jurassic of China (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (70: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming )
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (11), Canada (5: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (76), Croatia (6), Egypt (1), Germany (16), Greenland (45), Hungary (72), Indonesia (7), Iran (7), Israel (1), Italy (122), Japan (13), Jordan (6), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (30), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (34), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (2), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (99: California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming), Vietnam (6)
• Permian of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (36), Pakistan (5), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Namurian of Spain (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (2), Ireland (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 709 collections including 801 occurrences