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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).[2]

Species

Extant species:[1]

(= Cerastoderma lamarcki [Reeve, 1845])

Fossil taxa:[3][2]

Fossil valves of Cerastoderma edule from Pliocene of Italy

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