Arcopsis sparsiincisa Eames 1951 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482

Belongs to Arcopsis according to F. E. Eames 1951

Sister taxa: Arca (Arcopsis) harrassowitzi, Arcopsis (Arcopsis), Arcopsis adamsi, Arcopsis dispar, Arcopsis solida, Arcopsis symmetrica, Arcopsis symmrica, Arcopsis textilis

Type specimen: L. 79881, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2680, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Arcopsis sparsiincisa in the database

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