Yoldia scaphoides Nagao 1928 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Full reference: T. Nagao. 1928. Palaeogene fossils of the Island of Kyushu, Japan Part II. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12(1):11-140

Belongs to Yoldia according to T. Nagao 1928

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 mcconnelli, Yoldia nasuta, Yoldia newcombi, Yoldia nitida, Yoldia olympiana, Yoldia peninsularis, Yoldia pisciformis, Yoldia sagittalia, Yoldia sammamishensis, Yoldia sapotilla, Yoldia serica, Yoldia subscitula, Yoldia supramontereyana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Taya, Ashiya-machi, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Yamaga Formation of Japan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Taya, Ashiya-machi

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