Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative combinations: Cardium ciliatum, Ciliatocardium ciliatum, Clinocardium ciliatum
Synonym: Cardium islandicum Bruguiére 1789
Belongs to Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020
See also Coan et al. 2000, Hendy et al. 2008, Keen 1936 and Matthews 1967
Sister taxa: Ciliatocardium ainuanum, Ciliatocardium asagaiense, Ciliatocardium brooksi, Ciliatocardium carlsbergianum, Ciliatocardium ermanensis, Ciliatocardium evsseevi, Ciliatocardium hataii, Ciliatocardium iwatense, Ciliatocardium matchgarense, Ciliatocardium moorae, Ciliatocardium mutuense, Ciliatocardium obstinatus, Ciliatocardium sachalinense, Ciliatocardium schmidti, Ciliatocardium shinjiense, Ciliatocardium smekhovi, Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) makiyamae, Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) yakatagense
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (19: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario collections), Greenland (16), United States (6: Alaska, Maine, New Jersey)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Pliocene of Iceland (1), Japan (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (3), United States (3: Alaska)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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