Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spellings: Cardium (Nemocardium), Protocardia (Nemocardium)
Parent taxon: Fraginae according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Coan et al. 2000, Dockery 1982, Durham 1944, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 1976, Moore 1984, Schneider 1995, Schneider 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires 1999, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Turner 1938, Vokes 1980, Vredenburg 1928, Woodring 1925 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Acanthocardiini, Americardia, Chrysocardium, Corculum, Ctenocardia, Fragini, Fragum, Goniocardiini, Lunulicardia, Lunulicardium, Microfragum, Trigoniocardia, Chaenocardiola
Subtaxa: Cardium (Nemocardium) bhagothorense Cardium (Nemocardium) brasiliense Nemocardium (Arctopratulum) Nemocardium (Brevicardium) Nemocardium (Divaricardium) Nemocardium (Keenaea) Nemocardium (Lophocardium) Nemocardium (Lyrocardium) Nemocardium (Nemocardium) Nemocardium (Pratulum) Nemocardium (Trifaricardium) Nemocardium (Varicardium) Nemocardium bechei Nemocardium cooperii Nemocardium eugenense Nemocardium ezoense Nemocardium granosulcatum Nemocardium hadraterum Nemocardium lene Nemocardium lincolnensis Nemocardium nicoletti Nemocardium nicolletti Nemocardium nitens Nemocardium parile Nemocardium patulum Nemocardium plumsteadianum Nemocardium salrivale Nemocardium semiasperum Nemocardium semitectum Nemocardium turgidum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), New Zealand (1), United States (21: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1), United States (3: California)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), Haiti (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (4: California)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (2), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (5), New Zealand (8), Panama (11), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (9: Florida, Oregon)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Japan (10), Mexico (3), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (69: Alabama, Alaska, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), Egypt (3), France (2), Italy (2), Japan (8), Mexico (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (10), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (24), United States (169: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), New Zealand (5), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), United States (47: Alabama, California, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Brazil (2), Denmark (1), India (3), Japan (15), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (31: Alabama, Delaware, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Slovakia (1)
Total: 552 collections including 575 occurrences
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