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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