Edmondia rotunda Beede 1907 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Synonym: Edmondia cumminsi Beede 1907

Full reference: J. W. Beede. 1907. Invertebrate paleontology of the Upper Permian Red Beds of Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas. Kansas University Science Bulletin 4:113-1171

Belongs to Edmondia according to Z.J. Fang 1987

See also Beede 1907, Clifton 1942 and Newell 1940

Sister taxa: Edmondia acutangula, Edmondia anodontoides, Edmondia aspenwallensis, Edmondia aspinwallensis, Edmondia athenae, Edmondia bellula, Edmondia circularis, Edmondia crassa, Edmondia dubia, Edmondia elongata, Edmondia equilateralis, Edmondia filigrana, Edmondia gibbosa, Edmondia glabra, Edmondia grandis, Edmondia guembeli, Edmondia hamlingii, Edmondia hautmanni, Edmondia hudsoni, Edmondia isocosmica, Edmondia medon, Edmondia meekiana, Edmondia multilamellosa, Edmondia nebrascensis, Edmondia netschajewi, Edmondia nodulifera, Edmondia omolonica, Edmondia ovata, Edmondia phosphatica, Edmondia pinonensis, Edmondia pitkinensis, Edmondia prichardi, Edmondia radiata, Edmondia rudis, Edmondia soleniformis, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia sulcata, Edmondia tiesseni, Edmondia unioniformis, Edmondia vetusta, Edmondia yachihoensis, Broeckia primula

Type specimens:

  • Edmondia rotunda: Its type locality is Whitehorse Spring (Kansas coll), which is in a Capitanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal sandstone in the Whitehorse Formation of Oklahoma
  • Edmondia cumminsi: Its type locality is Dozier (KUMIP coll), which is in a Capitanian shallow subtidal dolomite in the Whitehorse Formation of Texas.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (3 collections), United States (13: Oklahoma, Texas)

Total: 16 collections including 17 occurrences

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