Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spelling: Cardium (Fragum)
Parent taxon: Fraginae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Glenn 1904, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthocardiini, Americardia, Chrysocardium, Corculum, Ctenocardia, Fragini, Goniocardiini, Lunulicardia, Lunulicardium, Microfragum, Nemocardium, Trigoniocardia, Chaenocardiola
Subtaxa: Fragum (Fragum) Fragum erugatum Fragum fragum Fragum grasi Fragum hemicardium Fragum mundum Fragum nivale Fragum retusum Fragum scruposum Fragum sueziensis Fragum unedo Fragum vanuatuense Fragum whitleyi
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (14 collections), French Polynesia (1), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Nauru (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (3), South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Japan (2)
• Miocene of Brazil (5), India (1), Northern Mariana Islands (2), United States (10: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (5)
• Eocene of Jamaica (1), Nigeria (2)
• Cretaceous of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Gabon (1), Nigeria (1), Oman (2)
Total: 57 collections including 69 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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