Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1936. Monographias do Servico Geologico E Mineralogico 11:1-283
Belongs to Cardium (Trachycardium) according to C. J. Maury 1936
Sister taxa: Cardium (Trachycardium) greenhoughi, Cardium (Trachycardium) minbuense, Cardium (Trachycardium) ochilleanum, Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum, Cardium (Trachycardium) protosubrugosum, Cardium (Trachycardium) sindiense, Trachycardium (Mexicardia), Trachycardium (Phlogocardia), Trachycardium (Regozara), Trachycardium (Trachycardium), Trachycardium cotteri, Trachycardium egmontianum, Trachycardium enode, Trachycardium eufaulensis, Trachycardium eversum, Trachycardium halaense, Trachycardium isocardia, Trachycardium kinsmarae, Trachycardium lacunosum, Trachycardium mollyni, Trachycardium multiradiatum, Trachycardium planicostata, Trachycardium puelchum, Trachycardium reynoldsi, Trachycardium rugosum, Trachycardium syriacum, Trachycardium thalassium, Cardium (Granocardium) sabulosum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Roque Mendes, Riachuelo, which is in an Albian marine horizon in Brazil
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Roque Mendes, Riachuelo
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