Liopistha ventricosa von Koenen 1897 (clam)

Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Liopistha according to L. Riedel 1933

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Leiopistha meekii, Liopistha (Psilomya), Liopistha alternata, Liopistha anaana, Liopistha glabra, Liopistha ligeriensis, Liopistha protexta, Liopistha sergipensis, Liopistha servesensis, Liopistha sulcata, Liopistha superba

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone/sandstone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Cameroon (3 collections), Nigeria (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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