Strigilla paraflexuosa Gardner 1947 (tellin clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Full reference: J. R. Gardner. 1947. The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (142A-H)1-709

Belongs to Strigilla according to J. R. Gardner 1947

Sister taxa: Strigilla (Aeretica), Strigilla (Pisostrigilla), Strigilla (Strigilla), Strigilla australis, Strigilla euronia, Strigilla georgiana, Strigilla mirabilis, Strigilla musanica, Strigilla pisiformis, Strigilla sphaerion

Type specimen: USNM 114602, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Loc. 2211 - Alum Bluff, lower bed, which is in a Burdigalian marine marl/sandstone in the Chipola Formation of Florida.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (3: Florida collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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