''Cerastoderma'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of marine

bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...

s in the family

Cardiidae A cockle is an edible marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Cardiidae Lamarck, 1809. Accessed through: W ...

. It includes the

common cockle The common cockle (''Cerastoderma edule'') is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. It is found in waters off Europe, from Iceland in the north, south into waters off western Africa as ...

''Cerastoderma edule.''

Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the

Paleocene The Paleocene, ( ) or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 mya (unit), million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), E ...

to the

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...

(age range: from 58.7 to 0.012 million years ago).Fossilworks
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Species

Extant species: * ''

Cerastoderma edule The common cockle (''Cerastoderma edule'') is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. It is found in waters off Europe, from Iceland in the north, south into waters off western Africa ...

'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

) - common cockle * ''

Cerastoderma glaucum ''Cerastoderma glaucum'', the lagoon cockle, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles. This species is found along the coasts of Europe and North Africa, including the Mediterranean and Black ...

'' (Poiret, 1789) - lagoon cockle :: (= ''Cerastoderma lamarcki'' eeve, 1845 Fossil taxa:Fossil ''Cerastoderma''
/ref> * '' Cardium (Cerastoderma) calvertensium ''Glenn, 1904 † * '' Cardium (Cerastoderma) patuxentium'' Glenn, 1904 † * '' Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum'' Dall, 1900 † * '' Cerastoderma chipolanum'' Dall, 1900 † * '' Cerastoderma latisulcum'' † * ''

Cerastoderma vindobonensis ''Cerastoderma'' is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Cardiidae. It includes the common cockle ''Cerastoderma edule.'' Fossil records This genus is known in the fossil records from the Paleocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 58.7 to ...

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References

Cardiidae Bivalve genera Taxa named by Giuseppe Saverio Poli {{bivalve-stub