Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Synonym: Allorismatidae Beurlen 1954
Full reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253
Parent taxon: Edmondioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Amler 2010, Bouchet et al. 2010, Morris et al. 1991, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Megadesmidae, Pachydomidae
Subtaxa: Allorisma Edmondia Globicarina Notomya Scaldia
Type: Edmondia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (1 collection), Slovenia (1)
• Permian of Argentina (1), Australia (9), Bolivia (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (22), Croatia (1), Greece (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (12), Japan (8), Lithuania (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (2), New Zealand (5), Oman (3), Pakistan (6), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (65: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Virgilian of United States (31: Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (19: Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Atokan of United States (1: Wyoming)
• Westphalian of United States (1: Kentucky)
• Pennsylvanian of Belize (2), Mexico (5)
• Namurian of Egypt (1)
• Chesterian of United States (14: Arizona, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Osagean of United States (3: Kentucky, Virginia)
• Mississippian of United States (3: Alaska, California)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (2), Australia (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), Ireland (2), Mexico (5), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (70: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Brazil (1), China (1), Germany (2), Poland (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: California, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Silurian of China (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Manitoba), China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 394 collections including 461 occurrences