†family Dicerocardiidae Kutassy 1934 (clam)

Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Dicerocardiidae

Parent taxon: Megalodontoidea according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Nevesskaja 2009, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Ceratomyopsidae, Gemmelarodus, Megalodontidae, Pachyrismatidae, Wallowaconchidae

Subtaxa: Ambocardia Carinocardia Cornucardia Dicerocardium Megalocardia Physocardia Platycardia Praedicerocardium Pseudisocardia Rostrocardia

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (2 collections), Egypt (8), Germany (1)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), Saudi Arabia (25), Somalia (3), the United Kingdom (2)

• Triassic of Austria (4), East Timor (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Hungary (18), Indonesia (2), Italy (15), Japan (1), Peru (2), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 90 collections including 103 occurrences

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