Baluchicardia

Baluchicardia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams in the family Carditidae. These clams were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.^[1]

Baluchicardia Temporal range: from Late Cretaceous to Eocene, 72.1–47.8 Ma[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae (Peron) of Maastrichtian age from Algeria at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Carditida
Superfamily:	Carditoidea
Family:	Carditidae
Subfamily:	Venericardiinae
Genus:	Baluchicardia Rutsch and Schenck, 1943
Synonyms
Venericardia (Baluchicardia)

Subtaxa

Some authors consider Baluchicardia a subgenus of Venericardia.^[2]

• Baluchicardia francescae ^[1]
• Baluchicardia nuriae ^[1]
• Baluchicardia obliquata ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) ameliae ^[2]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) amplicrenata ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) hesperia ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) moa ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) whitei ^[1]
• Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis ^[1]

Distribution

Species within this genus have been found in the Eocene of the United States, in the Paleocene of Colombia and the United States, and in the Cretaceous of Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Tunisia.^[1]