Chrysocardium aurum Woodring 1982 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F)

Belongs to Chrysocardium according to W. P. Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 647478, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Location 38, Rio Cassaya area (Gatuncillo Formation) - Woodring (1957) (Eocene of Panama)

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