Cerastoderma
| Cerastoderma Temporal range: Paleocene - Recent | |
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| Common cockle Cerastoderma edule | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Superfamily: | Cardioidea |
| Family: | Cardiidae |
| Genus: | Cerastoderma Poli, 1795 |
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Cerastoderma is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Cardiidae. It includes the common cockle Cerastoderma edule.
Fossil records
This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 58.7 to 0.012 million years ago).[1]
Species
Extant species:[2]
- Cerastoderma edule (Linnaeus, 1758) - common cockle
- Cerastoderma elegantulum (Beck, 1842) - elegant dwarf cockle
- Cerastoderma glaucum (Poiret, 1789) - lagoon cockle
- (= Cerastoderma lamarcki [Reeve, 1845])
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) calvertensium Glenn 1904 †
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) patuxentium Glenn 1904 †
- Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum Dall 1900 †
- Cerastoderma chipolanum Dall 1900 †
- Cerastoderma latisulcum †
- Cerastoderma vindobonensis †
Fossil valves of Cerastoderma edule from Pliocene of Italy
References
- 1 2 Fossilworks
- ↑ "Cerastoderma Poli, 1785". World Register of Marine Species. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee. Retrieved 29 Dec 2012.
- ↑ Fossil Cerastoderma
External links
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