Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

Full reference: J. Marwick. 1960. Early Tertiary Mollusca from Otaio Gorge, South Canterbury. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 33

Belongs to Hedecardium according to J. Marwick 1960

Sister taxa: Hedecardium (Hedecardium), Hedecardium (Iheringicardium), Hedecardium (Titanocardium), Hedecardium greyi, Hedecardium ogurai, Hedecardium septuagenarium, Hedecardium subcordatum, Hedecardium waitakiense, Vepricardium (Hedecardium) sharpei

Type specimen: Its type locality is S118/f539, which is in a Lutetian transition zone/lower shoreface sandstone in the Broken River Formation of New Zealand

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at S118/f539

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