Baluchicardia

Baluchicardia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae. These clams were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.[1]

Baluchicardia
Temporal range: from Late Cretaceous to Eocene, 70.6–48.6 Ma
Fossil Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae (Peron) of Maastrichtian age from Algeria at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Bivalvia
Order:
Carditida
Superfamily:
Carditoidea
Family:
Carditidae
Subfamily:
Venericardiinae
Genus:
Baluchicardia

Rutsch and Schenck 1943
Synonyms
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia)

Subtaxa

Some authors consider Baluchicardia a subgenus of Venericardia.[2]

  • Baluchicardia francescae [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae [2]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) amplicrenata [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) hesperia [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) moa [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) whitei [1]
  • Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis [1]

Distribution

Species within this genus have been found in the Eocene of the United States, in the Paleocene of Colombia and the United States and in the Cretaceous of Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Tunisia.[1]

References
  1. Paleobiology Database
  2. E. Ghiozzi, A. Malatesta I molluschi del Paleocene, pg. 92 Archived 2014-05-24 at the Wayback Machine


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