family Cardiidae

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family Cardiidae - somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks

Cardiidae

mollusk family - a family of mollusks

Bivalvia, class Bivalvia, class Lamellibranchia, class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia - oysters; clams; scallops; mussels

Cardium, genus Cardium - type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles

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Both Dinocardium robustum and Laevicardium mortoni are in the family Cardiidae. Sizes for these specimens ranged from D-stage to postlarval (88-381 [micro]m) based on the limited information available on some of the samples (Figs.

OPTICAL IMAGING AND MOLECULAR SEQUENCING OF A PRESERVED COLLECTION OF BIVALVE LARVAE

The most common fossil invertebrates correspond to bivalves of the genera Aequipecten, Amusium, Pecten, Ostrea, and numerous unidentified specimens of the Family Cardiidae. Less common are gastropods (Conus) and echinoderms (Clypeaster; Fig.

Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a sand-dominated coastal system of the Upper Miocene of eastern Guadalquivir Basin (south Spain): fossil assemblages, ichnology and taphonomy

Families Veneridae represented the highly diverse (15) species followed by family Cardiidae which was represents by 4 species.

Distribution of Intertidal Molluscs along Tarut Island Coast, Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia