Pleuromya haydeniana Girty 1927 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1927. Descriptions of new species of Carboniferous and Triassic fossils (from southeastern Idaho). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 152:411-446

Belongs to Pleuromya according to G. H. Girty 1927

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 7306i green, Cokeville Butte, which is in an Olenekian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Thaynes Formation of Wyoming

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 7306i green, Cokeville Butte

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