Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1869. Section II. Cretaceous Fossils. Part I. Description of Cretaceous Fossils from Mexico. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 255-276
Parent taxon: Cardiinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
Sister taxa: Acanthocardia, Bucardium, Cardiini, Cardium, Chesacardium, Criocardium, Dinocardiini, Dinocardium, Ethmocardium, Planicardium, Procardium, Rudicardium, Schedocardia, Septocardia, Vepricardiini, Vepricardium
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of China (1 collection), Libya (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Angola (1), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Cameroon (3), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Cuba (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (31), France (4), Gabon (4), Germany (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Iran (5), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Libya (6), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (3), Oman (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (5), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Somalia (1), Spain (3), Tunisia (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (217: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 321 collections including 424 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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