†Cardium (Cardium) guineense Adegoke 1977 (cockle)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Full reference: O. S. Adegoke. 1977. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria. Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295):1-379
Belongs to Cardium (Cardium) according to O. S. Adegoke 1977
Sister taxa: Cardium (Cardium) nicklesi, Cardium (Cardium) okeziei
Type specimen: UIMG 526. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry
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