Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Alternative combinations: Mactra obtruncata, Spisula (Spisula) obtruncata
Full reference: S. V. Wood. 1850. A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the East of England. Part II. Bivalves 1-302
Belongs to Spisula according to H. Moths et al. 2010
See also Marquet 2005 and Wood 1850
Sister taxa: Mactra (Spisula) sammamishensis, Spisula (Austromactra), Spisula (Cymbophora), Spisula (Eomactra), Spisula (Notospisula), Spisula (Ruellia), Spisula (Spisula), Spisula (Spisulona), Spisula (Stereomactra), Spisula arcuata, Spisula brombachensis, Spisula callistaeformis, Spisula compressa, Spisula craspedota, Spisula decisa, Spisula dernburgi, Spisula elliptica, Spisula hannibali, Spisula jacksonensis, Spisula paralis, Spisula parilis, Spisula praetenuis, Spisula rappahannockensis, Spisula semisulcata, Spisula sookensis, Spisula sorachiensis, Spisula subcuneata, Spisula subtruncata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (6), the United Kingdom (2)
• Miocene of Germany (1)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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