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Vasticardium sp.

genus Vasticardium Iredale, 1927

• Modern species: Miocene - Present (16.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Cardiidae

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Kagawa
• Paleogene-Neogene: Nagano
• Miocene: Akita, Fukushima, Niigata, Tochigi, Tokyo, Tottori, Shimane, Kagawa
• Pliocene: Aomori
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kochi
• Investigation in progress: Saitama (Miocene?)

• Subtaxa
• V. kantoense
• V. ogurai
• V. teshimaense