Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Parent taxon: Arcticidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agapella, Ambonicardia, Anisocardia, Anisocardioides, Antarctica, Antiquicyprina, Aquilonia, Arctica, Coelocyprina, Dietrichia, Epicyprina, Etea, Fengjiachongia, Gythemon, Hartwellia, Isocyprina, Izumia, Lilingella, Loparia, Microcyprina, Mokattamia, Petalocardia, Plesiocyprina, Procyprina, Pronoella, Proveniella, Pygocardia, Rollierella, Roudairia, Schedotrapezium, Somarctica, Stafficallista, Staffinella, Tenea, Tortarctica, Tosacyprina, Vectianella, Venericyprina, Veniella, Venilicardia, Yunshania, Agelasina, Amiodon
Subtaxa: Pseudotrapezium bathonica Pseudotrapezium depressum Pseudotrapezium elongatum Pseudotrapezium groenlandicum Pseudotrapezium praelonga Pseudotrapezium triangularis Pseudotrapezium ventricosum
Type: Cypricardia bathonica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Northwest Territories collection), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Jurassic of Chile (15), France (1), Greenland (11), India (4), Iran (1), Madagascar (1), Saudi Arabia (7), Somalia (1), Spain (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (10), Yemen (6)
Total: 76 collections including 78 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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