Tutcheria paxfordensis Cox 1946 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1946. Tutcheria and Pseudopis, new lamellibranch genera from the Lias. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 27:34-48

Belongs to Tutcheria according to L. R. Cox 1946

Sister taxa: Tutcheria aalensis, Tutcheria cingulata, Tutcheria densestriata, Tutcheria elegantula, Tutcheria heberti, Tutcheria itoi, Tutcheria nortonensis, Tutcheria richardsoni, Tutcheria slatteri, Tutcheria submulticostata

Type specimen: BMNH L18141. Its type locality is Paxford brickyard, which is in a Jurassic marine horizon in the Lower Lias Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Paxford brickyard

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