Myalina compressa Snider 1915 (clam)

Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae

Full reference: L.C. Snider. 1915. Geology of a Portion of Northeastern Oklahoma and Paleontology of the Chester Group in Oklahoma. Bulletin of the Oklahoma Geological Survey 24:1-122

Belongs to Myalina according to L.C. Snider 1915

Sister taxa: Myalina (Myalina), Myalina (Myalinella), Myalina (Orthomyalina), Myalina (Selenimyalina), Myalina banschangensis, Myalina chilena, Myalina congeneris, Myalina copei, Myalina dalecarlica, Myalina degeeri, Myalina falcata, Myalina flexuosa, Myalina goldfussiana, Myalina kansasensis, Myalina kiparisovae, Myalina lamellosa, Myalina leptaenarum, Myalina longicardinalis, Myalina longinqua, Myalina mongugaensis, Myalina nemesis, Myalina nessus, Myalina orsae, Myalina parallela, Myalina permiana, Myalina pernaformis, Myalina plicata, Myalina recta, Myalina semiglobosa, Myalina tommasii, Myalina vetusta

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Myalina compressa in the database

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