Verticordia Sowerby 1844 (clam)

Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae

Parent taxon: Verticordiidae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Cox et al. 1969, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Acreuciroa, Euciroa, Halicardia, Halicardissa, Haliris, Kurinuia, Laevicordia, Lyonsiella, Pecchiolia, Setaliris, Spinosipella, Trigonulina, Vertambitus, Vertisphaera, Dallicordia, Policordia

Subtaxa: Verticordia (Verticordia) Verticordia cossmanni Verticordia eocensis Verticordia excavata Verticordia granulosa Verticordia lockei Verticordia novemcostata Verticordia pectinata Verticordia rhomboidea Verticordia sotoensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (1: California collection)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Mexico (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Germany (1), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Denmark (1), Peru (1), United States (23: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Australia (1), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (43: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene of Denmark (6), United States (7: Alabama, Texas)

• Cretaceous of Denmark (2)

Total: 97 collections including 99 occurrences

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