Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spellings: Anthocardia, Cardium (Acanthocardia), Cardium (Anthocardia)
Parent taxon: Acanthocardiini according to J. A. Schneider 2002
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Freneix et al. 1988, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Oostingh 1935, Palmer and Brann 1965, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) Acanthocardia (Agnocardia) Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) Acanthocardia afra Acanthocardia becksii Acanthocardia hanseata Acanthocardia maputi Acanthocardia massintonti Acanthocardia mozambensis Cardium (Acanthocardia) cheribonense
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (2), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene of Algeria (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Austria (4), Belgium (10), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (3), the Dominican Republic (3), France (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Morocco (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), United States (6: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (2), United States (13: Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Egypt (2), Mexico (2), United States (82: Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Libya (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (25: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Gabon (1), Mozambique (1)
Total: 215 collections including 227 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.