Baluchicardia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams in the family Carditidae. These clams were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.[1]
| Baluchicardia Temporal range: from Late Cretaceous to Eocene,
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| Fossil Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae (Peron) of Maastrichtian age from Algeria at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Genus: | Baluchicardia Rutsch and Schenck, 1943
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Subtaxa
editSome authors consider Baluchicardia a subgenus of Venericardia.[2]
- Baluchicardia francescae [1]
- Baluchicardia nuriae [1]
- Baluchicardia obliquata [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae [2]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) amplicrenata [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) hesperia [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) moa [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) whitei [1]
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis [1]
Distribution
editSpecies 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, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Tunisia.[1]
References
edit- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Bivalvia
- Encyclopedia of Life
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