Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative combination: Cardium sindiense
Full reference: E. Vredenburg. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(2):351-506
Belongs to Cardium (Trachycardium) according to E. Vredenburg 1928
See also Azzaroli 1958
Sister taxa: Cardium (Trachycardium) greenhoughi, Cardium (Trachycardium) mamillatum, Cardium (Trachycardium) minbuense, Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum, Cardium (Trachycardium) protosubrugosum, Cardium (Trachycardium) riachuelense, Trachycardium (Mexicardia), Trachycardium (Phlogocardia), Trachycardium (Regozara), Trachycardium (Trachycardium), Trachycardium cotteri, Trachycardium egmontianum, Trachycardium enode, Trachycardium eufaulensis, Trachycardium eversum, Trachycardium halaense, Trachycardium kinsmarae, Trachycardium lacunosum, Trachycardium mollyni, Trachycardium multiradiatum, Trachycardium planicostata, Trachycardium puelchum, Trachycardium reynoldsi, Trachycardium rugosum, Trachycardium syriacum, Trachycardium thalassium, Cardium (Granocardium) sabulosum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Somalia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1), Somalia (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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