Mytilus (Pharomytilus) glendayi Weir 1929 (mussel)

Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae

Full reference: J. Weir. 1929. Jurassic Fossils from Jubaland, East Africa, Collected by V. G. Glenday, And the Jurassic Geology of Somaliland. Monographs of the Geological Department of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University 1-63

Belongs to Mytilus (Pharomytilus) according to J. Weir 1929

Sister taxon: Mytilus (Pharomytilus) plicatus

Type specimen: S. 3572. Its type locality is Dakatch (Juba Limestone), which is in an Oxfordian carbonate limestone in the Juba Limestone Formation of Somalia.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dakatch (Juba Limestone)

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