Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Parent taxon: Nuculanoidea according to P. M. Mikkelsen and R. Bieler 2008
See also Beu and Taviani 2013, Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cadomiidae, Isoarcidae, Malletiidae, Nuculanidae, Palaeoneilidae, Phaseolidae, Polidevciidae, Sareptidae, Saturnidae, Zealedidae
Subtaxa: Rollieria Yoldia Yoldiella
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (7: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Ontario), Greenland (8), Iceland (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (23), United States (50: California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (11), the Netherlands (2), Panama (3), the Philippines (2), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (20: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (12), Bulgaria (4), Colombia (1), Cyprus (2), Denmark (2), Germany (45), India (1), Italy (5), Japan (22), Morocco (5), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (2), Panama (2), the Russian Federation (27), Slovakia (1), United States (58: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Washington)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Antarctica (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (23), the Russian Federation (16), United States (84: Alaska, California, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (5), Japan (7), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (54: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Tertiary of United States (1: California)
• Paleogene of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), United States (10: Alabama, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Australia (4), Canada (12: Alberta, Saskatachewan), Chile (1), Denmark (2), India (1), Japan (4), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (42: California, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of Germany (31), India (12), Kenya (1), Portugal (12), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (6)
• Permian of United States (3: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of United States (9: Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma)
Total: 719 collections including 931 occurrences