Edmondia vetusta Whiteaves 1897 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Full reference: J. F. Whiteaves. 1897. Systematic list, with references, of the fossils of the Hudson River or Cincinnati formation at Stony Mountain, Manitoba. Palaeozoic Fossils 3(3):129-201

Belongs to Edmondia according to J. F. Whiteaves 1897

Sister taxa: Edmondia acutangula, Edmondia anodontoides, Edmondia aspenwallensis, Edmondia aspinwallensis, Edmondia athenae, Edmondia bellula, Edmondia circularis, Edmondia crassa, Edmondia dubia, Edmondia elongata, Edmondia equilateralis, Edmondia filigrana, Edmondia gibbosa, Edmondia glabra, Edmondia grandis, Edmondia guembeli, Edmondia hamlingii, Edmondia hautmanni, Edmondia hudsoni, Edmondia isocosmica, Edmondia medon, Edmondia meekiana, Edmondia multilamellosa, Edmondia nebrascensis, Edmondia netschajewi, Edmondia nodulifera, Edmondia omolonica, Edmondia ovata, Edmondia phosphatica, Edmondia pinonensis, Edmondia pitkinensis, Edmondia prichardi, Edmondia radiata, Edmondia rotunda, Edmondia rudis, Edmondia soleniformis, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia suborbiculata, Edmondia sulcata, Edmondia tiesseni, Edmondia unioniformis, Edmondia yachihoensis, Broeckia primula

Type specimen: Its type locality is Inmost Island, Kinwow Bay, Lake Winnepeg, which is in a Maysvillian carbonate dolomite/chert in the Red River Formation of Canada

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Canada (2: Manitoba collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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