†family Cardiolariidae Cope 1997 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Cardiolariidae

Full reference: J. C. W. Cope. 1997. The early phylogeny of the Class Bivalvia. Palaeontology 40(3):713-746

Parent taxon: Nuculida according to S. Mondal and P. J. Harries 2016

See also Bouchet et al. 2010 and Cope 1997

Sister taxa: Clinopista, Cnestriella, Ctenodontoidea, Dysondonta, Eonuculoma, Eritropsis, Iheringinucula, Kasachia, Leiodysodonta, Lepteviella, Menneroctenia, Neiloides, Nuculacea, Nuculoidea, Paleostraba, Phaseoloidea, Phestioides, Pristiglomoidea, Pseudoleda, Pseudonuculana, Scyphoconcha, Xiaoshuisulcna, Zechania

Subtaxa: Cardiolaria Deceptrix Inaequidens

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Ecology: slow-moving infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (2)

• Silurian of Argentina (3), United States (1: Ohio)

• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Morocco (1), Portugal (3), Spain (8)

• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)

• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)

• Ordovician of Australia (5), Canada (1: Ontario), China (2), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), Ireland (1), Morocco (2), Norway (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (8), United States (50: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee)

Total: 110 collections including 119 occurrences

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