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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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