Cypricardites Isberg 1934 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Full reference: O. Isberg. 1934. Studien über Lamellibranchiaten des Leptaenakalkes in Dalarna. Håkan Ohlssons Buchdruckerei 1-493

Parent taxon: Pleurophoridae according to O. Isberg 1934

Sister taxa: Celtoides, Curionia, Healeyinae, Kalentera, Kalenterinae, Myoconcha, Myoconchinae, Permophorus, Pleurophorina, Pseudomyoconcha, Pseudopermophorus, Rimmyjimina, Terzileria, Triaphorus, Permophorinae, Gujocardita

Subtaxa: Cypricardites bidens Cypricardites kallholniensis Cypricardites mobergi Cypricardites recurvus Cypricardites suecicus

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Kallholn, Boda Lst. (Ordovician of Sweden)

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