Baluchicardia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae. These clams were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.[1]
Some authors consider Baluchicardia a subgenus of Venericardia.[2]
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, Republic of the Congo, Egypt, France, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Tunisia.[1]
Baluchicardia is an extinct genus of fossil saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Carditidae. These clams were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.
