Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae
Parent taxon: Crassatelloidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Stanton 1895 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Aenigmoconchidae, Astartidae, Carditidae, Condylocardiidae, Crassatellidae, Hippopodiidae, Myophoricardiidae
Subtaxa: Arctocardinia Cardinia Cardiniopsis Isopristes Minepharus Nidarica Pseudastarte Tellidorella Torastarte
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Italy (1 collection), Panama (2)
• Miocene of Panama (3)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Canada (9: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (35), China (4), France (5), Germany (13), Greenland (61), Hong Kong (1), Hungary (1), Israel (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Luxembourg (2), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (15), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (22), United States (6: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (25), Canada (2: British Columbia), Chile (2), China (4), France (6), Italy (1), Japan (7), New Caledonia (5), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (20), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (9: California, Nevada)
Total: 299 collections including 367 occurrences