Claibornicardia

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Claibornicardia
Temporal range: 58.7–33.9  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Carditida
Superfamily: Carditoidea
Family: Carditidae
Genus: Claibornicardia
Stenzel & Krause, 1957
Species

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Claibornicardia is an extinct genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae. It is sometimes considered a subgenus of either Glyptoactis or Venericardia . [1] It has been found in the Americas and Europe. [2]

Species

No species are yet listed by the World Register of Marine Species (as of April 2019), but they may include: [2]

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References

  1. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. 1 2 "Fossilworks: Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia)". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. M. Vervoenen & F.A.D. van Nieulande (April 2010). "Claibornicardia aalterensis n. sp., a new carditid species from the Eocene of the Southern North Sea Basin".
  4. "Fossilworks: Glyptoactis alticostata". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.