†Pitaria (Pitaria) juliae Price and Palmer 1928 (venus clam)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
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 Pitaria (Pitaria) according to W. A. Price and K. V. M. Palmer 1928
Sister taxa: Pitaria (Pitaria) buenovistana, Pitaria (Pitaria) gazleyensis
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 infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Gazley Creek
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