Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Parent taxon: Cardiinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Schneider 2002 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthocardia, Bucardium, Cardiini, Cardium, Chesacardium, Criocardium, Dinocardiini, Dinocardium, Ethmocardium, Granocardium, Planicardium, Procardium, Rudicardium, Schedocardia, Septocardia, Vepricardiini
Subtaxa: Vepricardium asperulum Vepricardium delicatulum Vepricardium multispinosum Vepricardium sinense Vepricardium verrucosum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Philippines (1 collection), Thailand (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1)
• Eocene of France (3), Japan (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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