Bivalvia - Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Alternative spelling: Lunulicardium
Full reference: G. Münster. 1840. Beitrage zur Petrefactenkunde von Dr. Wissmann und Graf Münster unter Mitwirkung des Dr. Braun miv XIV, nach der Nature gezeichneten Tafeln 91-123
Parent taxon: Lunulacardiidae according to J. Nagel-Myers and M. R. W. Amler 2007
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hall 1885, Nye et al. 1975 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Buckhornia, Conocardiopsis, Guangxiconcha, Honeoyea, Lunulacardiinae, Metrocardia, Patrocardia, Pinnopsis, Prosochasma, Pterochaenia, Pterochaeniinae, Opisthonia
Subtaxa: Lunulacardium curtum Lunulacardium excrescens Lunulacardium ornatum Lunulacardium semistriatum Lunulicardium bifidocostatum Lunulicardium marcellense
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Quebec), the Czech Republic (3), Morocco (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (8: New York)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (3)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (9), Germany (1), Italy (1), Morocco (2), Poland (8)
Total: 42 collections including 53 occurrences
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