Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae

Alternative combination: Mactra contortula

Full reference: G.P. Deshayes. 1857. Description des Animaux sans Vertébres découverts dans le Bassin des Paris 1(2):81-392

Belongs to Spisula (Austromactra) according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995

See also Deshayes 1857 and Le Renard and Pacaud 1995

Sister taxa: Mactra (Austromactra) contraria, Mactra (Austromactra) rufescens, Spisula (Austromactra) lamberti, Spisula (Austromactra) laudunensis, Spisula (Austromactra) loustauae, Spisula (Austromactra) parameces, Spisula (Austromactra) recondita

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Saint-Vast-les-Mello, Barisseuse (Eocene of France)

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