Platycardia Beringer 1949 (clam)

Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae

Parent taxon: Dicerocardiidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ambocardia, Carinocardia, Cornucardia, Dicerocardium, Megalocardia, Physocardia, Praedicerocardium, Pseudisocardia, Rostrocardia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Platycardia in the database

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