{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|58.7|0|Paleocene - Recent}} | image = Coques.jpg | image_caption = Common cockle<br />''Cerastoderma edule'' | taxon = Cerastoderma | authority = Poli, 1795 | type_species = ''Cardium edule'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758<ref name=worms/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''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).<ref name=AA>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17455 Fossilworks]</ref>

==Species== '''Extant species''':<ref name=worms>{{cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137735|title=''Cerastoderma'' Poli, 1785 |work=World Register of Marine Species|publisher=Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee|access-date=29 Dec 2012}}</ref> * ''Cerastoderma edule'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> - common cockle * ''Cerastoderma glaucum'' <small>(Poiret, 1789) </small> - lagoon cockle :: (= ''Cerastoderma lamarcki'' [Reeve, 1845]) '''Fossil taxa''':<ref>[http://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Cerastoderma Fossil ''Cerastoderma'']</ref><ref name=AA/> * ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) calvertensium''<small>Glenn, 1904</small> † * ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) patuxentium''<small> Glenn, 1904</small> † * ''Cardium (Cerastoderma) waltonianum''<small> Dall, 1900 </small>† * ''Cerastoderma chipolanum''<small> Dall, 1900 </small>† * ''Cerastoderma latisulcum'' † * ''Cerastoderma vindobonensis'' †

[[File: Bivalvia - Cerastoderma edule.JPG|thumb|240px|right|Fossil valves of ''Cerastoderma edule'' from Pliocene of Italy]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

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Category:Cockles (bivalves) Category:Bivalve genera Category:Taxa named by Giuseppe Saverio Poli

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