Subfamily Protocardiinae Reuss 1846 (cockle)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Parent taxon: Cardiidae according to J. G. Carter et al. 2011

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Dockery 1982, Hickman 2015, Maxwell 1978, Moore 1976, Poutiers 2006, Schneider 1995, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Austrocardium, Cerastoderma, Dochmocardia, Europicardium, Goethemia, Hemicardium, Indocardium, Jurassicardium, Laevicardiinae, Lahilliinae, Maoricardium, Monodacna, Neocardiids, Obsoletiforma, Obsoletiformes, Papillicardium, Papyridea, Paradacna, Parvicardium, Parvidacna, Pascoella, Patagonicardium, Perucardia, Plagiocardium, Ringicardium, Sawkinsia, Serripes, Trachycardiinae, Goniocardium

Subtaxa: Anechinocardium Frigidocardium Lyrocardium Microcardium Protocardia

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Djibouti (1 collection), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Japan (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (2), Jamaica (4), Panama (4), the Philippines (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Panama (2), United States (18: Alaska, Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Oregon, Washington)

• Eocene of Panama (2), Peru (1), United States (19: Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon)

• Paleocene of Denmark (4), United States (4: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas)

• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Angola (3), Argentina (1), Austria (1), Brazil (5), Cameroon (4), Canada (15: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatachewan, Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (2), Denmark (2), Egypt (33), Gabon (1), Germany (3), India (2), Israel (2), Italy (2), Japan (14), Jordan (4), Lebanon (1), Libya (5), Madagascar (4), Mexico (11), Mozambique (3), New Zealand (9), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (10), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (149: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Japan (1)

• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (1), Canada (22: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (44), China (16), Denmark (3), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (1), France (41), Germany (3), Greenland (41), Hungary (1), India (66), Iran (6), Japan (10), Jordan (7), Kenya (15), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (4), Mexico (7), Morocco (1), North Atlantic (1), Portugal (104), the Russian Federation (8), Saudi Arabia (29), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Somalia (8), Spain (95), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tanzania (21), Thailand (1), Tunisia (59), the United Kingdom (87), United States (11: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming)

• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Austria (35), China (2), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (9), Italy (5), Laos (1), Myanmar (1), the Netherlands (1), Oman (1), Spain (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (15), United States (4: Alaska, Nevada)

Total: 1187 collections including 1343 occurrences

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