Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Parent taxon: Astartidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Alleinacin, Astartella, Astartellinae, Astartinae, Astartoides, Astartopsis, Balantioselena, Digitaria, Ensio, Flattopia, Goodallia, Lirotarte, Lyapinella, Middalya, Nargunella, Neocrassina, Opinae, Oxyeurax, Permartella, Pinzonellinae, Praeconia, Pressastarte, Radiastarte, Taxocardia, Terraiinae, Trigonopinae, Woodia
Subtaxa: Amphiaraus Astartemya Crassatellina Disparilia Eriphyla Eriphylopsis Freiastarte Herzogina Lirodiscus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (84: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia collections)
• Paleocene of Argentina (40), Denmark (1), United States (9: Alabama, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (9), Argentina (44), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), Chile (13), China (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Denmark (3), Egypt (1), France (2), Gabon (1), Germany (5), India (2), Italy (1), Japan (35), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (16), Nigeria (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), South Africa (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (43: California, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Jurassic of Chile (3), France (1), Greenland (24), Poland (4), Tanzania (14), Yemen (1)
Total: 387 collections including 421 occurrences