Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Full reference: J. A. Schneider. 2002. Phylogeny of cardiid bivalves (cockles and giant clams): revision of the Cardiinae and theimportance of fossils in explaining dijunct biogeographical distributions. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Socciety 2002(136):321-369
Parent taxon: Eucardiids according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Schneider 2002
Sister taxa: Cardiinae, Cerastodermatinae, Clinocardiinae, Fraginae, Lymnocardiinae, Profraginae, Trapezicardiinae, Tridacninae
Subtaxa: Afrocardium Freneixicardia Hedecardium Loxocardium Orthocardium
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (5), Australia (2), Cyprus (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Japan (3), New Zealand (12), Vanuatu (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1), France (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (17)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (2), Croatia (2), France (11), Germany (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (21), Nigeria (5), Spain (13), the United Kingdom (13)
• Paleocene of Belgium (7), Denmark (4), France (1), Germany (1), India (1), New Zealand (2)
Total: 142 collections including 157 occurrences