Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative spellings: Cardium (Cerastoderma), Cardium (Ceratoderma), Ceratoderma, Laevicardium (Cerastoderma)
Parent taxon: Cardiidae according to S. Schneider et al. 2005
See also Barth 1956, Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark 1932, Glenn 1904, Holroyd 2017, Mansfield 1940, Nagao 1928, Oldroyd 1925, Olsson 1967, Palmer and Brann 1965 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Austrocardium, Dochmocardia, Europicardium, Goethemia, Hemicardium, Indocardium, Jurassicardium, Laevicardiinae, Lahilliinae, Maoricardium, Monodacna, Neocardiids, Obsoletiforma, Obsoletiformes, Papillicardium, Papyridea, Paradacna, Parvicardium, Parvidacna, Pascoella, Patagonicardium, Perucardia, Plagiocardium, Protocardiinae, Ringicardium, Sawkinsia, Serripes, Trachycardiinae, Goniocardium
Subtaxa: Cardium (Cerastoderma) calvertensium Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis Cardium (Cerastoderma) hizenense Cardium (Cerastoderma) kishimaense Cardium (Cerastoderma) patuxentium Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum Cerastoderma chipolanum Cerastoderma edule Cerastoderma glaucum
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Iceland (2), Ireland (1), Israel (1), Italy (2), Morocco (4), the Netherlands (6), Spain (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (4), Greece (1), Iceland (1), Italy (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Austria (4), Croatia (3), Cyprus (2), Egypt (1), Germany (3), Greece (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (3), Poland (1), Romania (3), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (52: Delaware, Florida, Maryland)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (1: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of Mexico (6)
Total: 150 collections including 164 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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