Tellidorella interlacinia Dockery 1982 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae

Full reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261

Belongs to Tellidorella according to D. T. Dockery 1982

Sister taxon: Tellidorella mclellani

Type specimen: USNM 340460, a shell. Its type locality is MGS Loc. 89a - Wadell Cave [Mint Spring Fm], which is in a Rupelian offshore lime mudstone/wackestone in the Mint Spring Formation of Mississippi.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at MGS Loc. 89a - Wadell Cave [Mint Spring Fm]

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