Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Synonym: Callocallista Weaver 1916
Parent taxon: Callocardiinae according to E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott 2012
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Glenn 1904, Hendy 2007, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987 and Vokes 1980
Sister taxa: Amiantis, Callpita, Hysteroconcha, Pitar, Marwickia, Dosiniopsis, Dollfusia, Chimela, Aphrodina, Egrona, Gilbertharrisella, Agriopoma, Saxidomus, Katherinella, Nutricola, Pelecyora, Notocallista, Pseudaphrodina, Callistina, Loxo, Trigonocallista, Goshoraia, Rhabdopitaria, Lamelliconcha, Larma, Naulia, Austrocallista, Lepidocardia, Mesocallista, Lioconcha, Costacallista, Pseudamiantis, Rohea, Nitidavenus, Callistalox, Rhaiphiale
Subtaxa: Callocardia (Agriopoma) Callocardia (Atopodonta) Callocardia (Callocardia) Callocardia (Nitidavenus) Callocardia guttata Callocardia salvia Callocardia simiensis Callocardia sinedepressa
Type: Callocardia guttata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (1 collection), United States (10: Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina)
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (2), Jamaica (3), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Indonesia (4), Panama (64), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (20: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of France (2), Puerto Rico (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (3), Bulgaria (1), France (2), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Peru (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Paleocene of United States (3: California, Texas)
Total: 144 collections including 149 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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