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Cardium (Trigoniocardia) ballenium ✝

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	92391	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92391

Rank

species (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Cardiidae : Trigoniocardia : Cardium (Trigoniocardia) ballenium

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
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioidei	Ferussac 1822
superfamily	Cardioidea
family	Cardiidae	Lamarck 1809
-	Neocardiids	Carter et al. 2011
-	Eucardiids	Schneider 1995
subfamily	Fraginae	Stewart 1930
genus	Trigoniocardia	Dall 1900
species	Cardium (Trigoniocardia) ballenium	Pilsbry and Olsson 1941

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cardium (Trigoniocardia) ballenium	species	belongs to Cardium (Trigoniocardia)	stated without evidence	Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Trigoniocardia)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Trigoniocardia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. A. Pilsbry and A.A. Olsson. 1941. A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador. Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93:1-79

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1941	Cardium (Trigoniocardia) ballenium Pilsbry and Olsson

Pilsbry H. A., Olsson A.A. (1941) A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador, Proceedings of the Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 93, 1-79

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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