Edmondia phosphatica Girty 1910 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. The fauna of the Phosphate beds of the Park City Formation. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 436:1-82

Belongs to Edmondia according to K.W. Ciriacks 1963

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 pinonensis, Edmondia pitkinensis, Edmondia prichardi, Edmondia radiata, Edmondia rotunda, Edmondia rudis, Edmondia soleniformis, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia sulcata, Edmondia tiesseni, Edmondia unioniformis, Edmondia vetusta, Edmondia yachihoensis, Broeckia primula

Type specimen: USNM 1715. Its type locality is USGS 993a, Duke Claim, Swan Lake, which is in a Roadian offshore ramp limestone in the Phosphoria Formation of Idaho.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (5: Idaho, Wyoming collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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