Exotica Lamy 1918 (tellin clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Parent taxon: Macominae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Lamprell and Whitehead 1992 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Apolymetis, Bartrumia, Macalia, Psammotreta, Temnoconcha

Subtaxa: Exotica (Jactellina)

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Dampier Limestone, Broadhurst Bight (Quaternary of Australia)

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