Trachycardium Mörch 1853 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Alternative spellings: Cardium (Trachycardium), Laevicardium (Trachycardium)

Synonym: Cardium (Granocardium) Gabb 1869

Parent taxon: Trachycardiinae according to E. J. Moore 2003

See also Adegoke 1977, Aldrich 1911, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, da Silva Forti 1969, Dockery 1982, Durham 1944, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Harris 1919, Hendy et al. 2008, Iqbal 1973, Kosnik 2002, Loel and Corey 1932, Mansfield 1940, Marasti 1973, Maxwell 1978, Mendir et al. 2021, Mukerjee 1939, Oldroyd 1925, Olsson 1967, Pilsbry and Olsson 1941, Schneider 2002, Scott 1978, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980, Vredenburg 1928, Woodring 1938 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Acrosterigma, Dallocardia

Subtaxa: Cardium (Granocardium) sabulosum Cardium (Trachycardium) greenhoughi Cardium (Trachycardium) mamillatum Cardium (Trachycardium) minbuense Cardium (Trachycardium) polycolpatum Cardium (Trachycardium) protosubrugosum Cardium (Trachycardium) riachuelense Cardium (Trachycardium) sindiense Trachycardium (Mexicardia) Trachycardium (Phlogocardia) Trachycardium (Regozara) Trachycardium (Trachycardium) Trachycardium cotteri Trachycardium egmontianum Trachycardium enode Trachycardium eufaulensis Trachycardium eversum Trachycardium halaense Trachycardium kinsmarae Trachycardium lacunosum Trachycardium mollyni Trachycardium multiradiatum Trachycardium planicostata Trachycardium puelchum Trachycardium reynoldsi Trachycardium rugosum Trachycardium syriacum Trachycardium thalassium

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (1), Chile (8), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Kenya (10), Mexico (14), Panama (1), Peru (7), Saudi Arabia (2), the Seychelles (1), United States (47: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1), Yemen (5)

• Blancan of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (4), United States (1: Florida)

• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Chile (3), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (3), India (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (3), Panama (9), Peru (1), United States (9: Florida), Venezuela (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (3)

• Miocene of Argentina (11), Brazil (9), Chile (6), Colombia (5), the Dominican Republic (25), France (3), Grenada (1), India (4), Indonesia (6), Pakistan (2), Panama (44), Peru (4), Somalia (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (2), United States (36: California, Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (3)

• Neogene of Chile (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (7: Florida)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Haiti (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1), United States (13: Georgia, Mississippi)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)

• Eocene of France (1), India (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (7), Panama (1), Romania (5), Senegal (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Germany (1), Nigeria (1)

• Cretaceous of Angola (4), Brazil (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), United States (257: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)

Total: 644 collections including 694 occurrences

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