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Carditidae

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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

Carditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida, which was long included in the Venerida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3459	https://www.gbif.org/species/3459
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59551	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59551

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Carditida : Carditidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Carditida : Carditidae

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
superfamily	Crassatelloidea
family	Carditidae	Fleming 1820

Scientific Name

Carditidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	Glenn, 1904
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated with evidence	Newell, 1965
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	Dockery, 1982
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated with evidence	Gliozzi and Malatesta, 1983
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	Squires, 1984
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated with evidence	Ward and Blackwelder, 1987
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	Squires, 1987
Carditidae	family	belongs to Veneroida	stated without evidence	Squires, 1988
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditoidea	stated with evidence	Ward, 1992
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditoidea	stated without evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditacea	stated without evidence	El Qot, 2006
Carditidae	family	belongs to Crassatelloidea	stated with evidence	Bieler and Mikkelsen, 2006
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditoidea	implied	Nevesskaja, 2009
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditoidea	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Carditidae	family	belongs to Crassatelloidea	stated with evidence	Carter et al., 2011
Carditidae	family	belongs to Carditoidea	stated without evidence	Ros-Franch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

449

Extant Size (PBDB)

83 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

265 - 260 Ma
Permian

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS/SI, MA/SE, UN/BA, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

H. E. Vokes. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue. Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Common Name(s)

Trapezmuscheln, Cardita Clams, Carditas, トマヤガイ

Wikipedia

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

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Carditamerinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		73	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Carditesinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		139	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Carditinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		652	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Miodomeridinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		4	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Thecaliinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Venericardiinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		1,931	191 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Venericardinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ainicardita ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		22	33.9 Ma Oligocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Akardita genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Arcturellina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Baluchicardia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		129	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Bathycardita genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Beguina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cardiocardita genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Cardita genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		382	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Carditamera genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		167	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Carditellopsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Cardites genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		63	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Centrocardita genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Choniocardia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Claibornicardia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Coripia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Crassicardia genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cyclocardia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		577	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Darwinicardia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Fenestricardita ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Glans genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		124	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Glyptoactis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		298	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Gujocardita ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		36	265 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Hamacuna genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Kolmeris genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lazariella genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ludbrookia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lunulicardita genus	listed (PBDB)		7	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Maghrebella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Megacardita genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		43	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Milneria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Miodontiscus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	61.6 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Palaeocardita ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		157	237 Ma Middle Triassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Paraglans ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	55.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Pleuromeris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		246	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Powellina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudocardia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pteromeris genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		43	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Purpurocardia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Scalaricardita ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.7 Ma Miocene
Schizocardita ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Strophocardia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Thecalia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Tutcheria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		47	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	180 Ma Early Jurassic
Venericardia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,527	191 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Venericor genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vetericardiella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		146	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Vimentum genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xenocardita ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cardicardita gabonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cossmannella qarunensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eomiodon cossmanni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Goossensia plicatuloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1820	Carditidae Fleming
1904	Carditidae Glenn p. 343
1925	Carditidae Woodring p. 98
1931	Carditidae Olsson p. 47
1957	Carditidae Rivera p. 193
1965	Carditidae Newell p. 19
1980	Carditidae Vokes p. 117
1982	Carditidae Dockery p. 64
1983	Carditidae Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 91
1984	Carditidae Squires p. 45
1987	Carditidae Squires p. 63
1987	Carditidae Ward and Blackwelder p. 130

Year	Name and Author
1988	Carditidae Squires p. 19
1990	Carditidae Beu et al. p. 397
1992	Carditidae Ward p. 81
1999	Carditidae Squires p. 25
2000	Carditidae Coan et al. p. 258
2006	Carditidae Bieler and Mikkelsen p. 231
2006	Carditidae El Qot p. 73
2009	Carditidae Nevesskaja
2010	Carditidae Bouchet et al.
2011	Carditidae Carter et al. p. 14
2014	Carditidae Ros-Franch et al.
2015	Carditidae Hickman p. 5

References

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Glenn L. C. (1904) Pelecypoda, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 274-401

Woodring W. P. (1925) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Rivera R. (1957) Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica, Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32, 165-219

Newell N. D. (1965) Classification of the Bivalvia, American Museum Novitates 2206, 1-25

Dockery D. T. (1982) Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123, 1-261

Gliozzi E., Malatesta A. (1983) I molluschi del Paleocene di Baixa Chinhauanine nel bacino del Rio Massintonto (Maputo - Mozambico), Geologica Romana 22, 85-145

Squires R. L. (1984) Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 350, 1-76

Squires R. L. (1987) Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 388, 1-93

Ward L. W., Blackwelder B.W. (1987) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61, 113-283

Squires R. L. (1988) Eocene Macropaleontology of Northern Lockwood Valley, Ventura County, California, Contributions in Science (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 398, 1-23

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Ward L. W. (1992) Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America, Virginia Museum of Natural History 2

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

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

El Qot G. M. (2006) Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt, Beringeria 36, 3-163

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

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