Allorisma dubium Waagen 1881 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1881. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part III. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(3):185-328

Belongs to Allorisma according to J. C. Walter 1953

See also Waagen 1881

Sister taxa: Allorisma albequus, Allorisma altirostrata, Allorisma carniolicum, Allorisma costatum, Allorisma depressa, Allorisma inflectoventris, Allorisma padangensis, Allorisma stachei, Allorisma tornquisti, Allorisma waageni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Road from Katwahi to Shahpur, middle part, Upper Productus-limestone, Salt Range, which is in a Changhsingian marine sandstone in the Chhidru Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Pakistan (1 collection), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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