Wilkingia maxvillensis Whitfield 1882 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Alternative combination: Allorisma maxvillensis

Full reference: R. P. Whitfield. 1882. Descriptions of new species of fossils from Ohio, with remarks on some of the geological formations in which they occur. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2:193-244

Belongs to Wilkingia according to R. D. Hoare 2007

See also Whitfield 1882

Sister taxa: Wilkingia abramovi, Wilkingia andrewsi, Wilkingia androsovi, Wilkingia anshunensis, Wilkingia bulkurensis, Wilkingia fengchengensis, Wilkingia guizhouensis, Wilkingia hainanensis, Wilkingia hubeiensis, Wilkingia inflata, Wilkingia kutorgana, Wilkingia lunulata, Wilkingia mediterranea, Wilkingia neglecta, Wilkingia perelegans, Wilkingia pleuromyoides, Wilkingia regularis, Wilkingia rothi, Wilkingia sericea, Wilkingia terminale, Wilkingia terminalis, Wilkingia triangularis, Wilkingia verchojanica, Wilkingia walkeri, Wilkingia wyomingensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Exposure in railroad cut near Wortman Iron Bridge over Jonathan Creek (Carboniferous of Ohio)

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