Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Alternative combinations: Cardium sookensis, Cerastoderma sookensis

Full reference: B. L. Clark and R. Arnold. 1923. Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(5):123-234

Belongs to Clinocardium according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Clark and Arnold 1923 and Weaver 1942

Sister taxa: Clinocardium (Clinocardium), Clinocardium (Keenocardium), Clinocardium blandum, Clinocardium bulowi, Clinocardium comoxense, Clinocardium fucanum, Clinocardium okushirense, Clinocardium scapoosense, Clinocardium yakatagense

Type specimen: UCMP IP 30291. Its type locality is Kirby Creek, east, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Sooke Formation of Canada.

Distribution: found only at Kirby Creek, east

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