Actinodonta cuneata Phillips and Salter 1848 (clam)

Bivalvia - Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae

Full reference: J. Phillips and J. W. Salter. 1848. Palaeontological appendix to Professor J. Phillips’ memoir on the Malvern Hills, compared with the Palaeozoic districts of Abberley etc. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom 2(1):331-386

Belongs to Actinodonta according to L. R. Cox et al. 1969

See also Barrois 1891 and Phillips and Salter 1848

Sister taxa: Actinodonta naranjoana, Actinodonta ramseyensis, Davidia antiqua

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Actinodonta cuneata in the database

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