original description (unavailable nomenclaturally)
Muskhelishvili, L.V. (1966). K ekogenezu nekotorykh sarmatskikh mollyuskov [On the ecogenesis of some Sarmatian molluscs ]. <em>XII Nauchnaya sessiya Instituta Paleontologii, Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Tesizy Doklady.</em> 29-30.
page(s): 30 [details]
From editor or global species database
Additional information Bagdasarjan (1978, Kardiid Miotsena Iuga SSSR: 29) stated the type species to be Cardium fittoni d'Orbigny, but he considered Kolesnikovia to be a synonym of Plicatiformes. [details]