Trachycardium

Trachycardium is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.[1]

Trachycardium
Temporal range: Cretaceous - Recent
Fossil valve of Trachycardium multicostatum from Pliocene of Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Cardiida
Family: Cardiidae
Genus: Trachycardium
Morch, 1853

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous to the Quaternary (age range: from 109.0 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:[3]

  • Trachycardium belcheri (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
  • Trachycardium consors (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
  • Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856) — Florida prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium isocardia — West Indian prickly cockle
  • Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus, 1758) — yellow cockle
  • Trachycardium procerum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Slender cockle
  • Trachycardium rossi Marwick, 1944

References
  1. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 56-57.
  2. Fossilworks
  3. WoRMS
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