Trapezium daviesi Cox 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1930. The fossil fauna of the Samana Range and some neighbouring areas: Part VIII. The Mollusca of the Hangu Shales. Memoirs of the Geological Suvery of India 14

Belongs to Trapezium according to L. R. Cox 1930

Sister taxa: Trapezium (Neotrapezium), Trapezium (Schedotrapezium), Trapezium auberti, Trapezium claibornense, Trapezium diversicostulatum, Trapezium insepultum, Trapezium lycetti, Trapezium oblongum, Trapezium sublaevigatum, Trapezium subtriangulum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hangu Shales - Samana Range, Pakistan, which is in a Selandian/Thanetian marginal marine shale in the Hangu Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Hangu Shales - Samana Range, Pakistan

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