Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299

Belongs to Cardita according to T. A. Conrad 1848

Sister taxa: Cardita (Actinobolus), Cardita (Bryssomera), Cardita (Cardita), Cardita alata, Cardita alticosta, Cardita analis, Cardita aoteana, Cardita arduini, Cardita avicularia, Cardita barroneti, Cardita beaumonti, Cardita belviderensis, Cardita beneckei, Cardita berjadinensis, Cardita bilineata, Cardita caribbeanensis, Cardita chamaeformis, Cardita compta, Cardita corbis, Cardita cordellai, Cardita costaeirregularis, Cardita costaenodulosis, Cardita crassicosta, Cardita cuneata, Cardita decusata, Cardita delicatula, Cardita dupini, Cardita excrescens, Cardita granigera, Cardita guembeli, Cardita hilli, Cardita jenkinsi, Cardita kalimnae, Cardita katsumatai, Cardita kondoi, Cardita luerae, Cardita manteia, Cardita marmorea, Cardita marwicki, Cardita minuta, Cardita multiradiata, Cardita muricata, Cardita murrayana, Cardita nicaisei, Cardita northcrofti, Cardita orbicularis, Cardita orbicularis, Cardita pichleri, Cardita platycostata, Cardita preissii, Cardita protracta, Cardita pusilla, Cardita reginae, Cardita scalaris, Cardita senilis, Cardita shepardi, Cardita solida, Cardita sphaericula, Cardita spinosa, Cardita spinulosa, Cardita striata, Cardita subrotunda, Cardita talegii, Cardita tetrica, Cardita tricolor, Cardita trigonalis, Cardita triparticostata, Cardita unica, Cardita variabilis, Cardita variegata, Cardita viligensis, Carditia excavata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Vicksburg

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