Dicerocardiidae is an extinct family of fossil saltwater clams,

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heterodont In anatomy, a heterodont (from Greek, meaning 'different teeth') is an animal which possesses more than a single tooth morphology. In vertebrates, heterodont pertains to animals where teeth are differentiated into different forms. For example, ...

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 ...

molluscs Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil sp ...

, in the order Megalodontida.

Genera

Genera within the family Dicerocardiidae: * †'' Cornucardia'' Koken 1913 * †''

Dicerocardium ''Dicerocardium'' is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine heterodont bivalve molluscs, in the family Dicerocardiidae. These bivalves were stationary semi-infaunal suspension feeders. Distribution Fossils of species in this genus ha ...

'' Stoppani 1856, the type genus * †'' Physocardia'' Wahrmann 1894 * †'' Platycardia'' Beringer 1949 * †'' Pseudisocardia'' Douvillé 1912 * †'' Pseudisocardia'' Macfadyeni Cox 1935 * †'' Rostrocardia'' Freneix 1972

References

Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric bivalve families Triassic first appearances Cretaceous extinctions Bivalve taxonomy {{paleo-bivalve-stub