Dallocardia Stewart 1930 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Alternative spelling: Trachycardium (Dallocardia)

Full reference: R. B. Stewart. 1930. Gabb's California Cretaceous and Tertiary type lamellibranchs. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special Publication 3:1-314

Parent taxon: Trachycardiinae according to E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott 2012

See also Coan et al. 2000, da Silva Forti 1969, Moore 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Woodring 1938 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Acrosterigma, Trachycardium

Subtaxa: Dallocardia quadragenarium Dallocardia senticosum Dallocardia vaquerosense Dallocardia woodringi Trachycardium (Dallocardia) baiterum Trachycardium (Dallocardia) bowdenense Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena Trachycardium (Dallocardia) puebloense Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sagaseri Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), United States (49: California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (2)

• Blancan of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (3: California, Florida)

• Pliocene of Colombia (5), Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (2), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (12: California), Venezuela (8)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Colombia (48), the Dominican Republic (19), Ecuador (2), Panama (68), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (20: California), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (7: California, Florida)

• Oligocene of Panama (3), United States (5: California, Florida)

• Eocene of Mexico (1)

Total: 281 collections including 290 occurrences

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