Tivelina vaderensis Dickerson 1915 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative combination: Macrocallista vaderensis

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1915. Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5(3):33-98

Belongs to Tivelina according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Dickerson 1915

Sister taxa: Tivelina analoga, Tivelina baudoni, Tivelina capsuloides, Tivelina coislinensis, Tivelina delicatina, Tivelina deltoidea, Tivelina dixoni, Tivelina ewekoroensis, Tivelina gibbosula, Tivelina idriaensis, Tivelina nuculoides, Tivelina parameces, Tivelina rustica, Tivelina siliqua, Tivelina sphenarium, Tivelina subquadrangularis, Tivelina tellinaria, Tivelina vincentiana

Type specimen: CAS 267. Its type locality is CAS loc. 183, Big Bend of Cowlitz River, which is in a Bartonian marine mudstone/sandstone in the Cowlitz Formation of Washington.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (8: Oregon, Washington collections)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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