Cerkesia Monari 2003 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: S. Monari. 2003. A new genus and species of fimbriid bivalve from the Kimmeridgian of the western Pontides, Turkey, and the phylogeny of the Jurassic Fimbriidae. Palaeontology 46(5):857-884

Parent taxon: Fimbriidae according to S. Monari 2003

Sister taxa: Cyclopellatia, Haastina, Mutiella, Parvicorbis, Schafhaeutlia, Sphaera, Sphaeriola

Subtaxa: Cerkesia contiae

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Type: Cerkesia contiae

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Sekinindoruk, Cerkes River (Jurassic of Turkey)

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