Allorisma padangensis Roemer 1880 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Alternative combination: Sanguinolites padangensis

Full reference: F. Roemer. 1880. Über eine Kohlenkalk-Fauna der Westküste von Sumatra. Palaeontographica 27(3):1-11

Belongs to Allorisma according to G. Fliegel 1901

See also Roemer 1880

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Padang Highlands, which is in a Roadian/Wordian carbonate limestone in the Silungkang Formation of Indonesia

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Padang Highlands

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