Trachycardium
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| Fossil valve of Trachycardium multicostatum from Pliocene of Italy | |
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| Genus: | Trachycardium Morch, 1853
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Trachycardium is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.[1]
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 assimile (Reeve, 1844)
- Trachycardium belcheri (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Trachycardium consors (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
- Trachycardium egmontianum (Shuttleworth, 1856) — Florida prickly cockle
- Trachycardium enode
- Trachycardium isocardia — West Indian prickly cockle
- Trachycardium lacunosum (Reeve, 1845)
- Trachycardium magnum (Linnaeus, 1758) — magnum cockle
- Trachycardium muricatum (Linnaeus, 1758) — yellow cockle
- Trachycardium panamense (G. B. Sowerby, 1833)
- Trachycardium pristipleura (Dall, 1901)
- Trachycardium procerum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Slender cockle
- Trachycardium senticosum (G. B. Sowerby, 1833) — Panama thorny cockle
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ WoRMS
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