Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spellings: Cardium (Protocardia), Cardium (Protocardium), Protocardium
Parent taxon: Protocardiinae according to J. A. Schneider 1995
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Darragh 1970, Gabb 1864, Gabb 1869, Ronchetti 1970, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz et al. 2008, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Anechinocardium, Frigidocardium, Lyrocardium, Microcardium
Subtaxa: Cardium (Protocardia) arkansense Cardium (Protocardia) pauli Cardium (Protocardium) granuliferum Protocardia (Grypocardia) Protocardia (Leptocardia) Protocardia (Pachycardium) Protocardia (Protocardia) Protocardia (Tamilicardia) Protocardia alcesiana Protocardia buckmani Protocardia costaricensis Protocardia dufrenoyca Protocardia eduliformis Protocardia gambrina Protocardia hillana Protocardia intexta Protocardia lingulata Protocardia luggudensis Protocardia newberryana Protocardia peregrinorsa Protocardia pesolina Protocardia philippiana Protocardia piettei Protocardia placerensis Protocardia pulchella Protocardia qinghaiensis Protocardia razavii Protocardia rhaetica Protocardia salrivalis Protocardia somaliensis Protocardia stantoni Protocardia stonei Protocardia striatula Protocardia stricklandi Protocardia subquadrata Protocardia texanum Protocardia translucida Protocardia truncata Protocardia umkwelanensis Protocardia virginiana Protocardium (Brevicardium)
Type: Protocardia hillana
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Haiti (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1), the Philippines (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene of Cyprus (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Peru (1), United States (2: Maryland, Mississippi)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), United States (4: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Angola (3), Argentina (1), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Cameroon (4), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatachewan, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), Denmark (2), Egypt (33), Gabon (1), Germany (3), India (2), Israel (2), Italy (2), Japan (14), Jordan (4), Lebanon (1), Libya (5), Madagascar (4), Mexico (11), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (9), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (10), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (151: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (1), Canada (22: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (44), China (16), Denmark (3), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), France (41), Germany (3), Greenland (41), Hungary (1), India (66), Iran (6), Japan (10), Jordan (7), Kenya (15), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (4), Mexico (7), Morocco (1), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (104), the Russian Federation (8), Saudi Arabia (29), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (8), Spain (95), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (21), Thailand (1), Tunisia (59), the United Kingdom (87), United States (11: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (35), China (2), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (9), Italy (5), Laos (1), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Spain (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (4: Alaska, Nevada)
Total: 1129 collections including 1288 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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