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Bucardium

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3247500	https://www.gbif.org/species/3247500
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17414	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17414

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Cardiidae : Bucardium

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
-	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	Cardiinae	Lamarck 1809
genus	Bucardium	J.E.Gray 1853

Scientific Name

Bucardium J.E.Gray, 1853

Name Published In

Gray, J.E. (1853). A revision of the genera of some of the families of Conchifera or bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 11: 33-44, 398-402.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bucardium	subgenus	belongs to Cardium	stated without evidence	Freneix and Grant-Mackie, 1978
Bucardium	genus	belongs to Cardiinae	stated without evidence	Schneider, 2002
Bucardium	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Cardiidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cardiidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bucardium (Bucardium) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Bucardium grateloupianum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bucardium ringens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cardium (Bucardium) lillei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cardium lillei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ringicardium P.Fischer, 1887	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Cardiida : Cardiidae : *Ringicardium*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1853	Bucardium Gray
1978	Cardium (Bucardium) Freneix and Grant-Mackie p. 509
2002	Bucardium Schneider p. 351 figs. Figure 25
2002	Bucardium Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Freneix S., Grant-Mackie J. A. (1978) New Upper Cretaceous Cardiidae (Bivalvia) from New Zealand and New Caledonia, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 21 4, 505-515 doi:10.1080/00288306.1978.10424075

Schneider J. A. (2002) Phylogeny of cardiid bivalves (cockles and giant clams): revision of the Cardiinae and theimportance of fossils in explaining dijunct biogeographical distributions, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Socciety 2002 136, 321-369

Aphia2006/E. Africa Mar. Species DB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (2) 11 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

La Perna, R. (2016). Bucardium grateloupianum n. sp. from the Lower Miocene of Aquitaine with taxonomic comments on some fossil species from Europe (Bivalvia, Cardiidae). Zootaxa. 4178 (4): 568-582. - via World Register of Marine Species

Gray, J.E. (1853). A revision of the genera of some of the families of Conchifera or bivalve shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 11: 33-44, 398-402. - via World Register of Marine Species

Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Poorten, J.J. ter, 2005. Outline of a systematic index - Recent Cardiidae (Lamarck, 1809). VISAYA net. (Updated 2009 for WoRMS) - via World Register of Marine Species

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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