Pholadomya (Goniomya) beyrichi Choffat 1888 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae

Full reference: P. Choffat. 1888. Description des fossiles crétaciques, mollusques, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):61-95

Belongs to Pholadomya (Goniomya) according to P. Choffat 1888

Sister taxa: Goniomya (Goniomya), Goniomya americana, Goniomya angulifera, Goniomya aperta, Goniomya disangula, Goniomya hemicostata, Goniomya lacunosa, Goniomya literata, Goniomya matonabbei, Goniomya renevieri, Goniomya singaporensis, Goniomya verbana, Goniomya vespera

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (Couches à Schloenbachia inflata), which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in the Catumbela Formation of Angola

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (Couches à Schloenbachia inflata)

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