Alternative spelling: Edmondiacea
Full reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253
Parent taxon: Pholadomyoida according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011, Nevesskaja 2009, Newell 1965 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Arcticlam, Argyromya, Bontaea, Ceratomyoidea, Clavagellina, Dyasma, Farrazia, Gissaromya, Indomya, Myochamoidea, Obrimia, Parapachytraga, Pholadomyina, Pholadomyoidea
Subtaxa: Edmondiidae Megadesmidae Pachydomidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Miocene of China (1)
• Eocene of Japan (4)
• Triassic of Italy (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Slovenia (1)
• Permian of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (1), Australia (122), Bolivia (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (3), Brazil (39), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (27), Croatia (1), Greece (1), Greenland (1), India (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (12), Japan (8), Lithuania (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (2), Namibia (2), Nepal (3), New Zealand (8), Oman (3), Pakistan (7), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (26), South Africa (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (65: Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Namurian of Australia (4), Egypt (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (4), Australia (2), Belize (2), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (4), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), Ireland (2), Mexico (10), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (27), United States (148: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Brazil (1), China (1), Germany (2), Poland (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: California, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvannia, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Silurian of China (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Manitoba), China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 611 collections including 816 occurrences