Cardium Linnaeus 1758 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Parent taxon: Cardiinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, Camacho 1957, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Glenn 1904, Holmes 1860, Mukerjee 1939, Nagao 1928, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1967, Oostingh 1935, Packard 1922, Russell and Landes 1937, Schneider 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Wienrich 1999 and Woods 1922

Sister taxa: Acanthocardia, Bucardium, Cardiini, Chesacardium, Criocardium, Dinocardiini, Dinocardium, Ethmocardium, Granocardium, Planicardium, Procardium, Rudicardium, Schedocardia, Septocardia, Vepricardiini, Vepricardium

Subtaxa: Cardium (Americardia) Cardium (Cardium) Cardium (Criocardium) Cardium (Eucardium) Cardium (Pachycardium) Cardium (Tulongocardium) Cardium angustatum Cardium arcaeformis Cardium asiaticum Cardium barnense Cardium bisectum Cardium bottegoi Cardium bourdoti Cardium braunsi Cardium casertanum Cardium centifilosum Cardium cloacinum Cardium comoxense Cardium concinnum Cardium coosense Cardium corallinum Cardium costatum Cardium cucullatum Cardium cuculloides Cardium curtum Cardium cygnorum Cardium dariesi Cardium emarginatum Cardium emmonsi Cardium etheridgei Cardium flavum Cardium fragum Cardium galaticum Cardium hians Cardium impeditium Cardium inaequiconvexum Cardium incomptum Cardium indicum Cardium interruptum Cardium intersectum Cardium khowaiteri Cardium labronicum Cardium ladinum Cardium lobulatum Cardium lucerna Cardium maxicostatum Cardium midyetti Cardium miikense Cardium moricinum Cardium multicostatum Cardium nanum Cardium nodosulum Cardium nodosum Cardium nuculoides Cardium ouachitense Cardium ouralicum Cardium pentagonum Cardium perobliquum Cardium perobliquum Cardium philotarium Cardium pisum Cardium pygmaeum Cardium quilonense Cardium rachitis Cardium regazzoni Cardium rhynchonelloides Cardium riogramamense Cardium rudis Cardium soldani Cardium spillmani Cardium strigilliferum Cardium subalternatum Cardium subcurtum Cardium subperobliquum Cardium talahabense Cardium tropicum Cardium tuba Cardium tuberculatum Cardium tumidum Cardium venustum Cardium verbeeki

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Djibouti (3), Dominica (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Iceland (2), India (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (5), Morocco (4), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (11), South Africa (1), Spain (5), Taiwan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (9: California, Florida, South Carolina)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Egypt (1), Greece (2), Iceland (2), Italy (1), Japan (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mexico (1), Pakistan (3), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (4: Florida, Oregon, South Carolina), Vanuatu (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2)

• Miocene of Algeria (4), Argentina (4), Austria (3), Brazil (6), Bulgaria (1), Chile (2), Cyprus (7), the Czech Republic (5), France (5), Georgia (4), Greece (3), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), India (3), Indonesia (5), Iran (9), Israel (2), Italy (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Libya (2), Malta (1), the Marshall Islands (5), Mexico (1), Morocco (4), Panama (6), Poland (4), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (5), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (7: California, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Haiti (1)

• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (1), Romania (10), the Russian Federation (2), Somalia (1), United States (11: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Eocene of Angola (3), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (3), Croatia (5), Egypt (1), France (5), Haiti (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Libya (1), the Netherlands Antilles (2), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (4), Peru (2), Romania (4), Saudi Arabia (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (29: California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleogene of Japan (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Mali (1), Mexico (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (2), United States (17: Alabama, California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Cameroon (7), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (4), France (17), Gabon (1), Germany (4), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Jordan (2), Mexico (10), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (3), Nigeria (3), Peru (3), Poland (4), Portugal (4), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (16), Tanzania (2), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1), USSR (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (128: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Chile (1), Ethiopia (1), France (3), Greenland (18), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), Lebanon (1), Portugal (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Somalia (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of China (3), France (1), Indonesia (4), Italy (11), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 662 collections including 821 occurrences

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