Cleidophorus delawarensis Girty 1908 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Belongs to Cleidophorus according to G. H. Girty 1908

Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites ichikawai, Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites planulatus, Nuculites suboblongatus, Nuculites wattii, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus, Cucullella antiqua, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus planulata, Cleidophorus perdubius, Cleidophorus eductus, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus striatulus

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 2931 green, Guadalupe Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of Texas)

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