Edmondia suborbiculata Girty 1911 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Alternative combination: Edmondia crassa suborbiculata

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1911. The fauna of the Moorefield Shale. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 439:1-148

Belongs to Edmondia according to J. W. Busanus and R. D. Hoare 1991

See also Girty 1911

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 rotunda, Edmondia rudis, Edmondia soleniformis, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia sulcata, Edmondia tiesseni, Edmondia unioniformis, Edmondia vetusta, Edmondia yachihoensis, Broeckia primula

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Interbedded shales & limestones, Reynolds Limestone, Greer Limestone Co. quarry (Carboniferous of West Virginia)

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