Pisidium atopum Woodring 1982 (pea clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F)

Belongs to Pisidium according to W. P. Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Pisidium amnicum, Pisidium bellardii, Pisidium casertanum, Pisidium henslowianum, Pisidium leslieae, Pisidium medlicottianum, Pisidium nitidum, Pisidium obtusale, Pisidium personatum, Pisidium pulchellum, Pisidium pusillum, Pisidium solitarium, Pisidium subtruncatum, Pisidium victoriae, Pisidium vincentianum, Pisidium vukovici

Type specimen: USNM 647725, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Panama (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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