Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Parent taxon: Trachycardiinae according to E. V. Coan et al. 2000
See also Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Sepkoski 2002 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Dallocardia, Trachycardium
Subtaxa: Acrosterigma (Ovicardium) Acrosterigma (Vasticardium) Acrosterigma abrolhense Acrosterigma amirante Acrosterigma attenuatum Acrosterigma burchardi Acrosterigma capicorne Acrosterigma cygnorum Acrosterigma dalli Acrosterigma dianthinum Acrosterigma discus Acrosterigma hobbsae Acrosterigma kerslakae Acrosterigma linguatigris Acrosterigma maculosum Acrosterigma magnum Acrosterigma mauritianum Acrosterigma paulayi Acrosterigma pristipleura Acrosterigma profundum Acrosterigma punctolineatum Acrosterigma reeveanum Acrosterigma simplex Acrosterigma sorenseni Acrosterigma suluanum Acrosterigma transcendens Acrosterigma unicolor Acrosterigma uniornatum Acrosterigma variegatum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), Djibouti (3), Eritrea (1), Japan (2), Mayotte (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (4), Tonga (3), United States (4: Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (2)
• Pliocene of Colombia (2), the Dominican Republic (2), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene of Australia (4), the Dominican Republic (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (6), the Russian Federation (2), Vanuatu (1)
Total: 52 collections including 57 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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