Cardium pygmaeum Hisinger 1837 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Full reference: W. v. Hisinger. 1837. Lethaea svecica seu petrificata sveceia, iconibus et characteribus illustrata 1-124

Belongs to Cardium according to W. v. Hisinger 1837

See also Barrande 1881, Branson 1942, Pojeta and Runnegar 1976 and Wagner 2023

Sister taxa: 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 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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Porkuni, Siuge Member, which is in a Porkuni perireef or subreef lime mudstone/chert in the Ă„rina Formation of Estonia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cardium pygmaeum in the database

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