Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Alternative combinations: Cardium (Cerastoderma) coosense, Cerastoderma coosense, Ciliatocardium coosense, Clinocardium coosense, Keenocardium coosense, Laevicardium (Cerastoderma) corbis coosense

Belongs to Clinocardium (Clinocardium) according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Moore 2003 and Weaver 1942

Sister taxa: Clinocardium (Clinocardium) dickersoni, Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum, Clinocardium (Clinocardium) nuttallii, Clinocardium (Clinocardium) praeblandum, Clinocardium (Clinocardium) pristinum

Type specimen: USNM 153933, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Yokoun River - Skonun Formation (Miocene of British Columbia)

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