Centrocardita

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Centrocardita
Temporal range: 99.7–0.012  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Genus: Centrocardita
Sacco, 1899 [1]
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Centrocardita is an extant genus of marine clams in the family Carditidae. It is also represented in the fossil record. It is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Glans . [2]

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References

  1. I molluschi deiTerreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXVII.(Unionidae, Carditidae, Astartidae, Crassatellidae, Lasaeidae, Galeommidae, Cardiidae, … F Sacco - Torino: Carlo Clausen, 1899
  2. "Fossilworks: Glans (Centrocardita)". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.