Bulacanites obtusiplicatus Kase and Aguilar 2006 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: T. Kase and Y. M. Aguilar. 2006. Bulacanites obtusiplicatus gen. et sp. nov., a large lucinid bivalve (Mollusca) from the Pliocene of central Luzon, Philippines. Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo 44:175-183

Belongs to Bulacanites according to J. D. Taylor and E. A. Glover 2009

See also Kase and Aguilar 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Bayabas River, AGT2, which is in a Pliocene perireef or subreef sandstone in the Tartaro Formation of the Philippines

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Bayabas River, AGT2

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