Corbis scarsellai Jaboli 1959 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: D. Jaboli. 1959. Fossili Giurassici dell'Harar (Africa Orientale): Brachiopodi, Lamellibranchi e Gasteropodi [Jurassic fossils from Harar (Eastern Africa): brachiopods, lamellibranchs and gastropods]. Missione Geologica dell'Azienda Italiana Petroli (AGIP) nella Dancalia Meridionale e sugli Altipiani Hararini 4(1):3-100

Belongs to Corbis according to D. Jaboli 1959

Sister taxa: Fimbria (Omphaloclathrum), Fimbria africana, Fimbria astartiformis, Fimbria fimbriata, Fimbria furoni, Fimbria jamaicensis, Fimbria lajoyei, Fimbria mellingi, Fimbria pacifica, Fimbria regularis, Fimbria semireticulata, Fimbria sowerbyi, Fimbria striaticostata, Fimbria subdavidsoni, Fimbria subpectunculus, Fimbria susanensis, Fimbria vernoni, Corbis manzavinii, Corbis elliptica, Corbis concinna, Corbis imbricata, Corbis lirata, Corbis major, Corbis laticostata, Corbis staminea, Corbis plana, Corbis undata, Corbis claibornensis, Corbis lamellosa, Corbis lajoyei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cugnan Quoscè, which is in a Kimmeridgian shallow subtidal limestone in Ethiopia

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Cugnan Quoscè

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