Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spellings: Anthocardia, Cardium (Acanthocardia), Cardium (Anthocardia)
Parent taxon: Cardiinae according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Freneix et al. 1988, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Oostingh 1935, Palmer and Brann 1965, Schneider 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Bucardium, Cardiini, Cardium, Chesacardium, Criocardium, Dinocardiini, Dinocardium, Ethmocardium, Granocardium, Planicardium, Procardium, Rudicardium, Schedocardia, Septocardia, Vepricardiini, Vepricardium
Subtaxa: Acanthocardia (Acanthocardia) Acanthocardia (Agnocardia) Acanthocardia (Schedocardia) Acanthocardia afra Acanthocardia becksii Acanthocardia brunettii Acanthocardia hanseata Acanthocardia maputi Acanthocardia massintonti Acanthocardia mozambensis Acanthocardia paucicostata Cardium (Acanthocardia) cheribonense
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Spain (3), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene of Algeria (1), Belgium (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (3), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Austria (4), Belgium (10), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (3), the Dominican Republic (3), France (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Morocco (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (2), Spain (1), United States (6: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (14: Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Egypt (2), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (27: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Libya (1), United States (25: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Gabon (1), Mozambique (1)
Total: 158 collections including 169 occurrences
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