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Carditida

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Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Venericardia planicosta venturensis

Relience Clay pit, Troup, Smith County, Texas, USA

Description

Carditida is an order of marine bivalve clams.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carditida, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9280416	https://www.gbif.org/species/9280416
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	244315	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=244315

Rank

order

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Carditida

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Carditioni	Dall 1889
order	Carditida	(Dall 1889)

Scientific Name

Carditida

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Carditida	order	belongs to Heterodonta	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Carditida	order	belongs to Autobranchia	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Carditida	order	belongs to Heterodonta	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Carditida	order	belongs to Carditioni	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

1,125

Extant Size (PBDB)

157 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

485 - 478 Ma
Paleozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Bivalvia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Bivalvia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. G. Carter, C. R. Altaba L. C. Anderson, R. Araujo, A. S. Biakov, A. E. Bogan, D. C. Campbell, M. Campbell, J. H. Chen, J. C. W. Cope, G. Delvene, H. H. Dijkstra, Z. J. Fang, R. N. Gardner, V. A. Gavrilova, I. A. Goncharova, P. J. Harries, J. H. Hartman, M. Hautmann, et al. 2011. A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca). University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4:1-47

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carditida

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Condylocardioidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Crassatelloidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)	11,128	485 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Aenigmoconchidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Archaeocardiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Astartidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3,413	461 Ma Middle Ordovician	0 Ma Extant
Cardiniidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	583	485 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Carditidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4,019	265 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Condylocardiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	114	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Crassatellidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2,750	450 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician	0 Ma Extant
Eodonidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Myophoricardiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	193	252 Ma Permian	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Carditoida Dall
2006	Carditoida Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 231
2009	Carditoida Nevesskaja
2010	Carditida Bouchet et al.
2011	Carditida Carter et al. p. 13

References

Carter J. G., Altaba C. R., et al (2011) A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca), University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4, 1-47

Bieler R., Mikkelsen P. M. (2006) Bivalvia - a look at the branches, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148, 223-235

Nevesskaja L. A. (2009) Principles of Systematics and the System of Bivalves, Paleontological Journal 43 1, 1-11 doi:10.1134/S0031030109010018

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.; Collins, T. M.; Glover, E. A.; González, V. L.; Graf, D. L.; Harper, E. M.; Healy, J.; Kawauchi, G. Y.; Sharma, P. P.; Staubach, S.; Strong, E. E.; Taylor, J. D.; Tëmkin, I.; Zardus, J. D.; Clark, S.; Guzmán, A.; McIntyre, E.; Sharp, P.; Giribet, G. (2014). Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics. 28(1): 32-115. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184. - via World Register of Marine Species

WoRMS (2016) Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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