Conocardium

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| fossil_range = Late Ordovician-Late Permian
~{{fossil range|449.5|252.3}}

| image = Conocardiumkonincki.jpg

| image_caption = Conocardium konincki

| taxon = Conocardium

| authority = Bronn 1835

| type_species = Cardium aliforme

| type_species_authority = J. de C. Sowerby 1827{{cite journal | author=Michael R. W. Amler & Nicole S. Rogalla |year=2004 |title=History and nomenclature of the Conocardioidea (Mollusca: Rostroconchia) |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=307–322 |doi=10.1007/BF03009228}}

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Conocardium is an extinct genus of Rostroconchian mollusk. Its shell-mouth grew to be {{convert|2|-|3|in}} across. It fed on tiny plants and animals in the water. Fossils have been found all over the world from Ordovician to Permian formations.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8154 Conocardium] at Fossilworks.org

Species

The following species have been described:

C. acadianum
C. aliforme (type)
C. altum
C. aquisgranense
C. armatum
C. cresswelli
C. decussatum
C. denticulatum
C. elongatum
C. eximum
C. ferox
C. formosum
C. frater
C. fusiforme
C. gogoensis
C. gympiense
C. hainense
C. immatura
C. incarceratum
C. inceptum
C. inflatum
''C. konincki
C. longipennis
C. lyelli
C. nexile
C. oehlerti
C. philipsii
C. plinthinatus
C. prunum
C. pseudobellum
C. regulare
C. renardi
C. retusum
C. richmondense
C. securiforme
C. sowerbyi
C. spinalatum
C. tripartitum
C. truncata
C. truncatum
C. uralicum
C. ventriculosum
C. villmarense

Conocardium

Species

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