Lamelliconcha cora Brown and Pilsbry 1911 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae

Alternative combinations: Pitar cora, Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) cora

Full reference: A. P. Brown and H. A. Pilsbry. 1911. Fauna of the Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia 63(2):336-373

Belongs to Lamelliconcha according to W. P. Woodring 1982

See also Brown and Pilsbry 1911

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ANSP (no number), a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Ecuador (3 collections), Panama (24)

Total: 27 collections each including a single occurrence

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