Yoldia mcconnelli Russell and Landes 1937 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Full reference: L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes. 1937. Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 221

Belongs to Yoldia according to L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes 1937

Sister taxa: Yoldia (Cnesterium), Yoldia (Kalayoldia), Yoldia (Mirayoldia), Yoldia (Nampiella), Yoldia (Sachalinella), Yoldia (Yoldia), Yoldia blakeleyensis, Yoldia bocasensis, Yoldia clydoniona, Yoldia cooperii, Yoldia cupressensis, Yoldia dowlingi, Yoldia duprei, Yoldia evansi, Yoldia freytagi, Yoldia gala, Yoldia gladenkovi, Yoldia hikoshimensis, Yoldia impressa, Yoldia inaequisculpta, Yoldia kermadecensis, Yoldia kissoumi, Yoldia laevis, Yoldia limatula, Yoldia mater, Yoldia nasuta, Yoldia newcombi, Yoldia nitida, Yoldia olympiana, Yoldia peninsularis, Yoldia pisciformis, Yoldia sagittalia, Yoldia sammamishensis, Yoldia sapotilla, Yoldia scaphoides, Yoldia serica, Yoldia subscitula, Yoldia supramontereyana

Type specimen: GSC 9339, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Loc. 33, Medicine Lodge Coulee [Eastend Fm] (Cretaceous of Alberta)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.