Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Full reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2
Parent taxon: Cardiinae according to J. A. Schneider 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Ward 1992
Sister taxa: Acanthocardia, Bucardium, Cardiini, Cardium, Dinocardiini, Dinocardium, Ethmocardium, Granocardium, Planicardium, Procardium, Rudicardium, Schedocardia, Septocardia, Vepricardiini, Vepricardium
Subtaxa: Chesacardium acutilaqueatum Chesacardium craticuloides Chesacardium laqueatum Chesacardium leptopleura
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (15: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Miocene of United States (53: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia)
Total: 68 collections including 73 occurrences
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