Isorropodon frankfortensis Amano and Kiel 2007 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Vesicomyidae

Full reference: K. Amano and S. Kiel. 2007. Fossil Vesicomyid Bivalves from the North Pacific Region . The Veliger 49(4):270-293

Belongs to Isorropodon according to K. Amano and S. Kiel 2007

Sister taxa: Isorropodon humptulipsense, Isorropodon perplexum

Type specimen: USNM 534963, a shell. Its type locality is Frankfort, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Astoria Formation of Washington.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Frankfort

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