Trigonia somaliensis Stefanini 1939 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae

Full reference: G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270

Belongs to Trigonia according to G. Stefanini 1939

Sister taxa: Trigonia (Clavitrigonia), Trigonia (Heslingtonia), Trigonia (Indotrigonia), Trigonia (Kumatrigonia), Trigonia (Pleurotrigonia), Trigonia (Primatrigonia), Trigonia (Prosogyrotrigonia), Trigonia (Protrigonia), Trigonia (Trigonia), Trigonia aequicostata, Trigonia analoga, Trigonia antiqua, Trigonia azzarolae, Trigonia bowersiana, Trigonia castani, Trigonia castrovillensis, Trigonia charlottensis, Trigonia columbiana, Trigonia coqueiroensis, Trigonia cragini, Trigonia depauperata, Trigonia devexa, Trigonia doroschini, Trigonia eufaulensis gabbi, Trigonia eufaulensis moorei, Trigonia evansi, Trigonia gibboniana, Trigonia guildi, Trigonia hemisphaerica, Trigonia imbricata, Trigonia intersitans, Trigonia kayana, Trigonia kefersteini, Trigonia kitchini, Trigonia maastrichtiana, Trigonia maloneana, Trigonia marginata, Trigonia mearnsi, Trigonia melhasei, Trigonia montanaensis, Trigonia mooreana, Trigonia neuquensis, Trigonia nodulosa, Trigonia obliqua, Trigonia oregona, Trigonia orientalis, Trigonia oviedensis, Trigonia pandicosta, Trigonia papuana, Trigonia picteti, Trigonia plana, Trigonia plumasensis, Trigonia pseudocaudata, Trigonia pseudocrenulata, Trigonia pullus, Trigonia rebouli, Trigonia reesidei, Trigonia resoluta, Trigonia reticulata, Trigonia saavedra, Trigonia stantoni, Trigonia stolleyi, Trigonia suborbicularis, Trigonia sulcata, Trigonia tabacoensis, Trigonia taffi, Trigonia thierachensis, Trigonia undulatocostata, Trigonia weaveri, Trigonia whateleyae, Trigonia windhauseniana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Anole Issa, Oolitico inferiore, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian marine horizon in Somalia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Anole Issa, Oolitico inferiore

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