Lyrodesma huguesensis Foerste 1924 (clam)

Bivalvia - Unioni - Lyrodesmatidae

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

Belongs to Lyrodesma according to A. F. Foerste 1924

Sister taxa: Lyrodesma major, Lyrodesma planum, Lyrodesma postplanum, Lyrodesma poststriatum, Lyrodesma truyolsi

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at St Hugues, 1.5 miles NW of station on Yamaska River (Ordovician of Quebec)

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