Conchocele bathyaulax Hickman 2015 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Thyasiridae

Full reference: C. S. Hickman. 2015. Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part III: The heteroconchs. PaleoBios 32:1-44

Belongs to Conchocele according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Hickman 2015

Sister taxa: Conchocele bisecta, Conchocele conradii, Conchocele kiritachiensis, Conchocele taylori, Conchocele townsendi, Conchocele yatsuoensis

Type specimen: USNM 561775. Its type locality is Columbia (USGS 15263) - Hickman (1980), which is in a Priabonian deep-water siltstone/mudstone in the Keasey Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington collections)

• Eocene of United States (5: Oregon)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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