Allorisma costatum Meek and Worthen 1869 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Alternative combination: Allorisma costata

Full reference: F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1869. Descriptions of New Carboniferous Fossils from the Western States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:137-172

Belongs to Allorisma according to P.F.P.C. Devonshire 1955

See also Meek and Worthen 1869

Sister taxa: Allorisma albequus, Allorisma altirostrata, Allorisma carniolicum, Allorisma consanguinatum, Allorisma depressa, Allorisma dubium, Allorisma inflectoventris, Allorisma padangensis, Allorisma stachei, Allorisma tornquisti, Allorisma waageni

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (3: California, Ohio collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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