Somareoides hastatus Skwarko 1967 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae

Alternative combination: Permophorus hastatus

Full reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1967. First Upper Triassic and ? Lower Jurassic marine Mollusca from New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 75:39-84

Belongs to Somareoides according to S. K. Skwarko 1983

See also Skwarko 1967

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CPC 5099, a valve (right valve). Its type locality is H176, 3 miles west of Gebal, which is in a Carnian marine siliciclastic in the Jimi Formation of Papua New Guinea.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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