Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Alternative combinations: Cardium (Trachycardium) woodringi, Trachycardium (Trachycardium) woodringi
Full reference: W. Loel and W. H. Corey. 1932. The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 22(3):31-410
Belongs to Dallocardia according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020
See also Loel and Corey 1932 and Moore 2003
Sister taxa: Dallocardia quadragenarium, Dallocardia senticosum, Dallocardia vaquerosense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) baiterum, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) bowdenense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) dominicense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) muricatum, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) phlyctaena, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) puebloense, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) sagaseri, Trachycardium (Dallocardia) tintinnabularum
Type specimen: UCMP 31774, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. A495, foothills of La Panza Range, which is in a Miocene coastal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Vaqueros Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (9: California collections)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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