Bivalvia - Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Parent taxon: Tellinoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Donacidae, Icanotiidae, Psammobiidae, Quenstedtiidae, Semelidae, Sowerbyidae, Tancrediidae, Tellinidae, Unicardiopsidae
Subtaxa: Solecurtinae Tagelus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (1), Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador), Chile (9), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (3), Egypt (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (4), Mayotte (1), Mexico (6), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (6), the Philippines (1), Thailand (1), United States (62: California, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (3), Venezuela (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (4), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Ecuador (4), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (4), Japan (1), Pakistan (3), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (2), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (4)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Brazil (5), Bulgaria (2), Colombia (12), the Dominican Republic (2), Germany (9), Haiti (1), India (4), Indonesia (3), Italy (5), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (20), Peru (2), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (16: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Hungary (1), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), Peru (3), Puerto Rico (2), United States (5: California, Mississippi)
• Eocene of China (1), Colombia (2), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Germany (1), South Africa (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 295 collections including 329 occurrences