Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative combination: Cardium (Trachycardium) puebloense
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213
Belongs to Trachycardium (Dallocardia) according to W. P. Woodring 1982
See also Anderson 1929 and Barrios 1960
Sister taxa: Dallocardia quadragenarium, Dallocardia senticosum, Dallocardia vaquerosense, Dallocardia woodringi, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) baiterum, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) bowdenense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sagaseri, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum
Type specimen: CAS 4660, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 267 (horizon R), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm], which is in a Pliocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Colombia (2 collections)
• Miocene of Colombia (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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