Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Full reference: W. G. Heaslip. 1968. Cenozoic evolution of the alticostate venericards in Gulf and East Coastal North America. Palaeontographica Americana 6(39):1-135
Parent taxon: Venericardia according to W. P. Woodring 1982
See also Dockery 1982 and Heaslip 1968
Sister taxa: Cardita (Venericardia) frauscheri, Cardita (Venericardia) laurae, Cardita (Venericardia) pseudonodulosa, Venericardia (Clairbornicardia), Venericardia (Leuroactis), Venericardia (Pacificor), Venericardia (Venericardia), Venericardia (Venericor), Venericardia aizyensis, Venericardia ameghinorum, Venericardia ameliae, Venericardia angusticosta, Venericardia apodensata, Venericardia barroneti, Venericardia bistrovi, Venericardia bonificae, Venericardia brassica, Venericardia buruca, Venericardia camachoi, Venericardia capricornis, Venericardia carolinensis, Venericardia complanata, Venericardia complexicosta, Venericardia costagranosa, Venericardia crossensis, Venericardia crucedemaionis, Venericardia domenginica, Venericardia eoa, Venericardia ewekoroensis, Venericardia gulielmi, Venericardia hamiltonensis, Venericardia heterocostata, Venericardia hornii, Venericardia imbricata, Venericardia inflatior, Venericardia ionensis, Venericardia isaurae, Venericardia jaquinoti, Venericardia juneri, Venericardia koerti, Venericardia maudensis, Venericardia minuta, Venericardia natchitoches, Venericardia nauliensis, Venericardia nodifera, Venericardia olga, Venericardia pakistanica, Venericardia perimetra, Venericardia philotima, Venericardia praecisa, Venericardia pseudowilmotii, Venericardia rosii, Venericardia semiinflata, Venericardia simillina, Venericardia simplex, Venericardia soriensis, Venericardia stewarti, Venericardia tabligboensis, Venericardia thalassoplekta, Venericardia thaleia, Venericardia togoensis, Venericardia tokudai, Venericardia tortidens, Venericardia trinidadensis, Venericardia vicksburgiana, Venericardia waynensis, Venericardia yakatagensis
Subtaxa: Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Venericardia (Rotundicardia) eoa Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Mexico (3 collections), United States (21: Mississippi)
• Eocene of Australia (4), Mexico (1), Panama (2), United States (118: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene of Australia (1)
Total: 151 collections including 156 occurrences