Dicerocardiidae
Appearance
| Dicerocardiidae Temporal range: from Triassic to Cretaceous, | |
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| Fossil valves of Dicerocardium jani, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | â Megalodontida |
| Superfamily: | â Megalodontoidea |
| Family: | â Dicerocardiidae Kutassy, 1934 |
| Genera | |
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Dicerocardiidae is an extinct family of fossil saltwater clams, marine heterodont bivalve molluscs, in the order Megalodontida.
Genera
[edit]Genera within the family Dicerocardiidae:
- â Cornucardia Koken 1913
- â Dicerocardium Stoppani 1856, the type genus
- â Physocardia Wahrmann 1894
- â Platycardia Beringer 1949
- â Pseudisocardia DouvillÃĐ 1912
- â Pseudisocardia Macfadyeni Cox 1935
- â Rostrocardia Freneix 1972
References
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