Isocardia chicoensis Waring 1917 (clam)

Bivalvia - Venerida - Glossidae

Full reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124

Belongs to Isocardia according to C. A. Waring 1917

Sister taxa: Isocardia azzarolae, Isocardia branneri, Isocardia buchii, Isocardia bulbosa, Isocardia cor, Isocardia coutinhoana, Isocardia delta, Isocardia hendersoni, Isocardia ignolea, Isocardia irelandi, Isocardia parisiense, Isocardia parvula, Isocardia praecisa, Isocardia shumardi, Isocardia subsinuata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Chico area in Bell's Canyon north of Simi fault (Locality 2 of Waring 1917), which is in a Campanian marine mudstone in the Chatsworth Formation of California

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Chico area in Bell's Canyon north of Simi fault (Locality 2 of Waring 1917)

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