Trinacria adamsi Price and Palmer 1928 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae

Full reference: W. A. Price and K. V. M. Palmer. 1928. A new fauna from the Cook Mountain Eocene near Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 2(1):20-31

Belongs to Trinacria according to W. A. Price and K. V. M. Palmer 1928

Sister taxa: Trinacria (Pachecoa), Trinacria cancellata, Trinacria cor, Trinacria cuneus, Trinacria menthifontis, Trinacria nipponica, Trinacria ovalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gazley Creek, which is in a Lutetian coastal marl in the Cook Mountain Formation of Texas

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gazley Creek

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