Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Tindariidae
Authorship attributed to Sanders and Allen (1977) in Coan et al. (2000).
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Parent taxon: Malletioidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bieler and Mikkelsen 2006, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Nevesskaja 2009, Spencer et al. 2004 and Todd 2001
Sister taxa: Cucullellidae, Pseudocyrtodontidae, Strabidae
Subtaxa: Neilonellinae Tindaria Tindariinae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Jamaica (2 collections), Japan (4)
• Miocene of Japan (1), New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (7)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Japan (1), New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Japan (1)
• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Denmark (2), Germany (2), Jordan (1), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of China (26), Greenland (1), Hungary (39), Italy (89), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (23: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
• Permian to Triassic of China (4)
Total: 224 collections including 237 occurrences