This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Reinhart, 1935
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Anadarinae
Alternative Name
scientific
Cunearcidae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
scientific
Cunearcinae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
scientific
Lunarcidae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
scientific
Lunarcinae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
scientific
Scaphulinae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
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Seniliinae
Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
Ref.: P. Bouchet, J.-P. Rocroi, and R. Bieler, J. G. Carter, E. V. Coan. 2010. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2):1-184
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M. R. Cooper, 2014 - The Cainozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy of KwaZulu-Natal. Part 5. The False Bay Coral Limestone Formation. Stratigraphy and fauna - Durban Natural Science Museum Novitates (), 7-24 (journal article, English)
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J. G. Carter, 2011 - A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) - University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions (4), 1-47 (serial monograph, English)
P. Bouchet, 2010 - Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families - Malacologia (52), 1-184 (journal article, English)
H. Moths, 2010 - Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen) - Palaeofocus (3), 1-155 (journal article, English)
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A. J. W. Hendy, 2008 - Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions - (), - (unpublished, English)
A. J. W. Hendy, 2007 - Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions) - (), - (unpublished, English)
G. Rosenberg, 2006 - A Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks - (), - (unpublished, English)
G. Rosenberg, 2005 - Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca - [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp (), - (unpublished, English)
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H. G. Spencer, 2004 - Checklist of the Recent Mollusca described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone - [http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/index.html] (), - (unpublished, English)
V. A. Tavora, 2004 - Paleoinvertebrados - O Neógeno da Amazônia Oriental (), 111-131 (book/book chapter, Portugese)
R. P. Tiwari, 2003 - Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Tertiary sediments of Mizoram, India - Journal of the Paleontological Society of India (48), 65-88 (journal article, English)
M. A. Kosnik, 2002 - personal opinion. - (), - (unpublished, )
B. Wilson, 2002 - - A handbook to Australian Seashells (), - (book/book chapter, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
O. Mandic, 2002 - The paleoenvironment of an early Middle Miocene Paratethys sequence in NE Austria with special emphasis on mollusks and foraminifera - Geobios (24), 193-206 (journal article, English)
L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, 2002 - Cenozoic Molluscan types from Java (Indonesia) in the Martin Collection (Division of Cenozoic Mollusca), National Museum of Natural History, Leiden - NNM Technical Bulletin (5), 1-130 (serial monograph, English)
B. P. Tiwari, 2001 - Neogene palaeontology of the Surma Group, Mizoram, India. 1 - The Arcoida (Mollusca: Bivalvia) - Journal of the Paleontological Society of India (46), 147-160 (journal article, English)
T. Okutaini, 2000 - - Marine mollusks of Japan (), 1-1173 (journal article, English)
E. V. Coan, 2000 - Bivalve seashells of western North America - Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs (2), 1-764 (book/book chapter, English)
K. Lamprell, 1998 - - Bivalves of Australia (2), - (book, English)
L. W. Ward, 1998 - Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis - Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil Site, Delaware (), - (book/book chapter, English)
P. Jensen, 1996 - - Common Seashells of Coastal Northern Queensland (), - (book/book chapter, )
J.O. Chiesa, 1995 - Observaciones estratigraficas en el Paleogeno del noroeste de la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Republica Argentina). Parte II: Invertebrados marinos de la Formacion El Chacy (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Systematica y bioestratigrafia - Monografias de la Acadamia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas Y Naturales (11), 17-68 (journal article, Spanish)
S. K. Skwarko, 1994 - - Mollusca in Indonesian Cenozoic biostratigraphy (a computerised compilation) (), - (book/book chapter, English)
D. Frassinetti, 1993 - Bivalvos del Mioceno marino de Matanzas (Formacíon Navidad, Chile central) - Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile (44), 73-97 (journal article, Spanish)
M. C. Perrilliat, 1992 - Bivalvos y gasterópodos de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan - Paleontologia Mexicana (60), 1-48 (serial monograph, Spanish)
L. W. Ward, 1992 - Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America - Virginia Museum of Natural History (2), - (serial monograph, English)
C. J. del Rio, 1992 - Middle Miocene bivalves of the Puerto Madryn Formation, Valdes Peninsule, Chubut Province, Argentina (Nuculidae-Pectinidae): Part 1 - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (225), 1-58 (journal article, English)
Y. Honda, 1988 - Molluscan fossils from the Atsunai Group, Kushiro Coal Field, Eastern Hokkaido, Northern Japan - Sato Ho-on Kai Special Publication (), 351-363 (journal article, English)
L. W. Ward, 1987 - Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine - Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (61), 113-283 (serial monograph, English)
S. M. Kidwell, 1982 - Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain - Unpublished PhD thesis, Yale University (), 1-511 (Ph.D. thesis, English)
D. T. Dockery, 1982 - Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi - Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology (123), 1-261 (, )
J. E. Schoellhamer, 1981 - Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (420), 1-109 (serial monograph, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1980 - Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue - Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue (), - (book/book chapter, English)
W. P. Woodring, 1973 - Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (additions to gastropods, scaphopods, pelecypods: Nuculidae to Malleidae) - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (306), 453-539 (serial monograph, )
W. O. Addicott, 1973 - Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (791), 1-48 (serial monograph, English)
A. M. Keen, 1971 - - Sea Shells of Tropical West America (), 1-1064 (book/book chapter, English)
I. R. da Silva Forti, 1969 - Cenozoic Mollusks from the drillholes Cassino and Palmares do Sul of the Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul - Iheringia Geologia (2), 55-155 (journal article, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1969 - The anadarid subgenus Caloosarca in the Western Atlantic region - Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology (7), 1-40 (journal article, English)
P. Jung, 1965 - Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela - Bulletins of American Paleontology (49), 389-652 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1964 - Some Neogene Mollusca from Florida and the Carolinas - Bulletins of American Paleontology (47), 509-575 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1964 - - Neogene Mollusks From Northwestern Ecuador (), - (book/book chapter, English)
A. K. Dey, 1961 - The Miocene Mollusca from Quilon, Kerala (India) - Palaeontologica Indica (36), - (serial monograph, English)
M.C. Perrilliat, 1960 - Moluscos del Mioceno de la Cuenca Salina del Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexico - Paleontologia Mexicana (8), 1-31 (serial monograph, Spanish)
A. A. Olsson, 1953 - Pliocene Mollusca of Southern Florida - Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Monograph (8), 1-457 (serial monograph, English)
J. R. Gardner, 1947 - The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (), 1-709 (serial monograph, English)
B. L. Clark, 1946 - Eocene Faunas from the Department of Bolivar, Colombia - Geological Society of America Memoir (16), 1-126 (serial monograph, English)
J. W. Durham, 1944 - Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (27), 101 -212 (journal article, English)
J. A. Gardner, 1943 - Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (199), - (serial monograph, English)
P. W. Reinhart, 1943 - Mesozoic and Cenozoic Arcidae from the Pacific Slope of North America - Geological Society of America Special Paper (47), - (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1942 - Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica - Bulletins of American Paleontology (27), 1-106 (serial monograph, English)
H. A. Pilsbry, 1941 - A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador - Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (93), 1-79 (journal article, English)
W. C. Mansfield, 1940 - Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl - Journal of Paleontology (14), 171-226 (journal article, English)
P. N. Mukerjee, 1939 - Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam - Palaeontologia Indica (28), 1-101 (serial monograph, English)
H. E. Vokes, 1938 - Upper Miocene Mollusca from Springvale, Trinidad, British West Indies - American Museum Novitates (988), 1-28 (journal article, English)
F. Traub, 1938 - Geologische und paläontologische Bearbeitung der Kreide und des Tertiärs im östlichen Rupertiwinkel, nördlich von Salzburg [Geological and paleontological work on the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the eastern Ruperti region, north of Salzburg] - Palaeontographica Abteilung A (88), 1-107 (journal article, German)
C. H. Oostingh, 1935 - Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java) - Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen (26), 1-247 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1932 - Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 5, Miocene Mollusca - Bulletins of American Paleontology (19), 1-272 (serial monograph, English)
W. Loel, 1932 - The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California (Part 1) - University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences (22), 31-410 (serial monograph, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1931 - Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene - Bulletins of American Paleontology (17), - (journal article, English)
U. S. Grant, IV, 1931 - Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California - Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History (1), 1-1036 (serial monograph, English)
F. M. Anderson, 1929 - Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia - Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences (18), 73-213 (serial monograph, English)
E. Vredenburg, 1928 - Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (50), 351-506 (serial monograph, English)
F. Hodson, 1927 - Some Venezualan and Caribbean Mollusks - Bulletins of America Paleontology (13), 1-160 (serial monograph, English)
L.B. Kellum, 1926 - Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina - United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (), 1-56 (serial monograph, )
W. P. Woodring, 1925 - Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods - Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies (), - (book/book chapter, English)
C. J. Maury, 1924 - Fosseis Terciarios Do Brazil - Servico Geologico E Mineralogico Do Brazil Monographia (49), - (serial monograph, English)
H. Woods, 1922 - Section A. Mollusca from the Eocene and Miocene deposits of Peru. - Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods in the Northwest Part of Peru (), 51-113 (book chapter, English)
A. A. Olsson, 1922 - The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica - Bulletins of American Paleontology (9), 1-309 (serial monograph, English)
E. M. Spieker, 1922 - The Paleontology of the Zorritos Formation of the North Peruvian Oil Fields - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology (3), 1-196 (serial monograph, English)
C. J. Maury, 1920 - Tertiary Mollusca from Porto Rico - Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands (3), 1-78 (book/book chapter, English)
C. J. Maury, 1917 - Santo Domingo type sections and fossils - Bulletins of American Paleontology (5), 1-43 (serial monograph, English)
C. J. Maury, 1912 - A contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (15), 1-112 (serial monograph, English)
A. P. Brown, 1911 - Fauna of the Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia (63), 336-373 (journal article, English)
H. A. Pilsbry, 1910 - A new Haitian Oligocene horizon - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (62), 487-489 (journal article, English)
V. C. Osmont, 1904 - Arcas of the California Neocene - University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology (4), 89-100 (journal article, English)
L. C. Glenn, 1904 - Pelecypoda - Maryland Geological Survey (Miocene), 274-401 (journal article, English)
W. M. Gabb, 1866 - Section I. Tertiary Invertebrate Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species - Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils (), 1-38 (book chapter, English)
T. A. Conrad, 1856 - Descriptions of three new genera; twenty-three new species Middle Tertiary fossils from California, and one from Texas - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (8), 301-327 (journal article, English)
T. A. Conrad, 1848 - Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (3), 280-299 (journal article, English)