Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Parent taxon: Laevicardium according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Marasti 1973 and Oostingh 1935
Sister taxa: Cardium (Laevicardium) alaskensis, Cardium (Laevicardium) melvilli, Cardium (Laevicardium) mortoni, Cardium (Laevicardium) spillmani, Cardium (Laevicardium) unicolor, Laevicardium (Habecardium), Laevicardium biradiatum, Laevicardium compressum, Laevicardium crassum, Laevicardium ecuadoriale, Laevicardium elatum, Laevicardium etheringtoni, Laevicardium leptorimum, Laevicardium lobulatum, Laevicardium multipunctatum, Laevicardium nemocardiforme, Laevicardium oblongum, Laevicardium papyraceum, Laevicardium pictum, Laevicardium pristis, Laevicardium serratum, Laevicardium substriatum, Laevicardium sybariticum, Laevicardium tristiculum, Laevicardium venustulum, Laevicardium vitellinum, Dinocardium (Exocardium) chipolanum
Subtaxa: Laevicardium (Laevicardium) decorticatum Laevicardium (Laevicardium) tegalense
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (7), Indonesia (3), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Miocene of India (1), Italy (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence