Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 284234

Full reference: Y. S. Repin. 2013. New taxa of Jurassic bivalve mollusks from Iran. Paleontological Journal 47:562-569

Belongs to Protocardia according to Y. S. Repin 2013

Sister taxa: Cardium (Protocardia) pauli, Protocardia (Grypocardia), Protocardia (Leptocardia), Protocardia (Pachycardium), Protocardia (Protocardia), Protocardia (Tamilicardia), Protocardia alcesiana, Protocardia buckmani, Protocardia costaricensis, Protocardia dufrenoyca, Protocardia eduliformis, Protocardia gambrina, Protocardia hillana, Protocardia intexta, Protocardia lingulata, Protocardia luggudensis, Protocardia newberryana, Protocardia peregrinorsa, Protocardia pesolina, Protocardia philippiana, Protocardia piettei, Protocardia placerensis, Protocardia qinghaiensis, Protocardia rhaetica, Protocardia salrivalis, Protocardia somaliensis, Protocardia striatula, Protocardia stricklandi, Protocardia subquadrata, Protocardia translucida, Protocardia truncata, Protocardia umkwelanensis, Protocardia virginiana, Protocardium (Brevicardium)

Type specimen: VNIGRI 837/193, a shell. Its type locality is Shotori Range, Tabas region (Kuchek Ali Lst), which is in a Bathonian carbonate limestone in the Kuchek Ali Formation of Iran.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Average measurements (in mm): shell 36.8 x 25.9