Trachycardium

Genus of bivalves From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trachycardium is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.[1]

Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Bivalvia
Order:Cardiida
Family:Cardiidae
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Trachycardium
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
Fossil valve of Trachycardium multicostatum from Pliocene of Italy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Cardiida
Family: Cardiidae
Genus: Trachycardium
Morch, 1853
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Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 109.0 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:[3]

  • Trachycardium belcheri (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  • Trachycardium consors (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
  • Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856) Florida prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium isocardia West Indian prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus, 1758) yellow cockle
  • Trachycardium procerum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) Slender cockle
  • Trachycardium rossi Marwick, 1944

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