Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Parent taxon: Anthracosioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Carbonicolidae, Ferganoconchidae, Shaanxiconchidae, Sinomyidae, Yananoconcha
Subtaxa: Anthracomya Carbonicola Unionites
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (70: Idaho, Montana, Utah, 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: 705 collections including 796 occurrences