Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Alternative spelling: Cultellidae
Parent taxon: Pharidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Cultellus, Ensis, Novaculininae, Pharinae, Rzehakiinae, Siliqua, Siliquinae
Subtaxa: Enosolen Ensiculus Leptosolen Ospriasolen Phaxas Senis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of South Africa (2)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Japan (3), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (2), India (1), Japan (16), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (137: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Portugal (2)
• Triassic of China (1)
Total: 187 collections including 201 occurrences