Cerastoderma

''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 0.012 million years ago).Fossilworks
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Species

Extant species:
* ''Cerastoderma edule'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) - common cockle
* ''Cerastoderma glaucum'' (Poiret, 1789) - lagoon cockle
:: (= ''Cerastoderma lamarcki'' [Reeve, 1845])
Fossil taxa:Fossil ''Cerastoderma''
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* ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) calvertensium ''Glenn, 1904 †
* ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) patuxentium'' Glenn, 1904 †
* ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum'' Dall, 1900 †
* ''Cerastoderma chipolanum'' Dall, 1900 †
* ''Cerastoderma latisulcum'' †
* ''Cerastoderma vindobonensis'' †

References

Cardiidae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by Giuseppe Saverio Poli

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