Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Parent taxon: Veneridae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Adegoke 1977, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, da Silva Forti 1969, Gardner 1943, Glenn 1904, Marwick 1960, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Pugaczewska 1984 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Anofia, Austrocardilanx, Callistinae, Callocardiinae, Calva, Chamelea, Chionidae, Clementina, Cockburnia, Cythereinae, Eurhomalea, Ezocallista, Fossacallista, Frigichione, Gemma, Gouldiinae, Macrocallista, Oedalia, Paleomarcia, Paphiinae, Pitaria, Polititapes, Pullastra, Securella, Sinodia, Sunettinae, Transennella, Venerinae, Venerupis, Venidia, Xenoloupia, Cooperella
Subtaxa: Aeora Cytherea Cytheriopsis Eomeretrix Grateloupia Meretricini Meretrissa Meretrix Resatrix Tivela Tivelina
Type: Meretrix
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (2), Costa Rica (5), Cuba (1), Djibouti (3), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Greece (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Japan (6), Kenya (3), Mexico (10), Morocco (2), Mozambique (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Peru (6), South Africa (9), Spain (3), Turkey (1), United States (96: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2), Yemen (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (6), Ecuador (2), India (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Mexico (1), Pakistan (5), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (2), the Philippines (2), South Africa (4), Trinidad and Tobago (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (25: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Brazil (7), Colombia (33), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (7), France (2), Haiti (1), India (6), Indonesia (7), Iran (2), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Japan (28), Mexico (12), Pakistan (6), Panama (76), Peru (6), the Philippines (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (3), Somalia (5), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (70: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (20)
• Neogene of Chile (1)
• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (2), France (31), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (4), Pakistan (2), Panama (3), Peru (4), Puerto Rico (8), United States (19: California, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Colombia (2), Croatia (4), Egypt (3), France (5), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (8), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (3), Nigeria (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), Peru (16), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (51: Alabama, California, Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington), Venezuela (4)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (16), China (3), Egypt (2), Libya (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), United States (18: Alabama, Arkansas, California, New Jersey, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Argentina (1), Austria (3), Belgium (1), Cameroon (3), Chile (3), Colombia (1), Egypt (15), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (1), Israel (11), Mexico (7), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (2), the United Kingdom (23), United States (251: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 1146 collections including 1439 occurrences