[3][5] Due to the size and age of the fossil specimens, Fordillidae species are included as part of the Turkish Small shelly fauna.

The umbo is positioned notably anterior on the shell and the beak is bracketed by two teeth of indistinctly pyramidal shape.

[3] The presence of the teeth was later questioned in a 1998 study by G. Geyer and M. Streng and cited the lack of preserved muscle scars as reason to suspect the placement of Camya asy in Bivalvia.

[7] The structuring is similar to shell layering found in the extinct genera Anabarella and Watsonella which is thought to suggest members of the phylum Mollusca developed nacre independently several times.

[7] Of the four accepted bivalve genera to have been described from the Cambrian, Fordilloidea contains three, Camya, Fordilla, and Pojetaia,[3] with the remaining genus Tuarangia in the possibly related order Tuarangiida.