Baluchicardia

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Baluchicardia
Temporal range: from Late Cretaceous to Eocene, 70.6–48.6  Ma
Carditidae - Venericardia ameliae.JPG
Fossil Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae (Peron) of Maastrichtian age from Algeria at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Baluchicardia

Rutsch and Schenck 1943
Synonyms
  • Venericardia (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]

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Subtaxa

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

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]

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