Venericardia (Pacificor) nelsoni Verástegui 1953 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Synonym: Venericardia (Pacificor) transversaria Verástegui 1953

Full reference: P. Verástegui. 1953. The pelecypod genus Venericardia in the Paleocene and Eocene of western North America. Palaeontographica Americana 3(2535):399-462

Belongs to Venericardia (Pacificor) according to E. J. Moore 1992

See also Hendy 2020 and Verástegui 1953

Sister taxa: Venericardia (Pacificor) aragonia, Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia, Venericardia (Pacificor) carlosensis, Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki, Venericardia (Pacificor) durhami, Venericardia (Pacificor) hornii, Venericardia (Pacificor) lisa, Venericardia (Pacificor) merriami, Venericardia (Pacificor) mulleri, Venericardia (Pacificor) taliaferroi, Venericardia (Pacificor) venturensis

Type specimens:

  • Venericardia (Pacificor) nelsoni: UCMP 32804, a valve. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Santa Susana Formation of California.
  • Venericardia (Pacificor) transversaria: UCMP 32804a. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon, which is in a Ypresian marine horizon in the Santa Susana Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon

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