Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Alternative combination: Cardium septuagenarium

Full reference: R. Tate. 1887. The Lamellibranchs of the older Tertiary of Australia (Part 2). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 9:142-189

Belongs to Hedecardium according to T. A. Darragh 1970

See also Tate 1887

Sister taxa: Hedecardium (Hedecardium), Hedecardium (Iheringicardium), Hedecardium (Titanocardium), Hedecardium collinsi, Hedecardium greyi, Hedecardium ogurai, Hedecardium subcordatum, Hedecardium waitakiense, Vepricardium (Hedecardium) sharpei

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Table Cape, Tasmania (inc. Freestone Cove Sst and Fossil Bluff Sst) (Miocene of Australia)

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