Clidophorus brevi Foerste 1924 (pointed nut clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Full reference: A. F. Foerste. 1924. Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 138(121):1-99

Belongs to Clidophorus according to A. F. Foerste 1924

Sister taxa: Clidophorus alpinus, Clidophorus obliquus, Clidophorus obscurus, Clidophorus planulatus, Clidophorus postvolutus, Clidophorus praevolutus, Clidophorus tamarackensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at River bed upstream from railway bridge, Sainte Hyacinthe, Breault bed (Ordovician of Québec)

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