Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sportellidae
Parent taxon: Cyamioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Beu et al. 1990, Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Glenn 1904, Nevesskaja 2009, Rosenberg 2005, Vokes 1980 and Ward and Blackwelder 1987
Sister taxa: Basterotiidae, Cyamiidae, Galatheavalvidae, Neoleptonidae, Perrierinidae
Subtaxa: Angusticardo Anisodonta Basterotia Cerullia Ensitellops Fabella Fulcrella Grundensia Hindsiella Isoconcha Sportella Vokesella
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Japan (4), United States (22: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Jamaica (1), United States (6: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Austria (1), Colombia (2), France (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (2), United States (27: Florida, New Jersey)
• Oligocene of United States (10: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: Alabama, Texas)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), United States (6: Alabama, Texas)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: South Dakota)
• Permian of Pakistan (1)
Total: 105 collections including 139 occurrences