Yaadia robusta Saul 1978 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Steinmanellidae

Full reference: L. R. Saul. 1978. The North Pacific Cretaceous trigoniid genus Yaadia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 119:1-65

Belongs to Yaadia according to L. R. Saul 1978

Sister taxa: Yaadia (Leptotrigonia), Yaadia branti, Yaadia californiana, Yaadia jonesi, Yaadia leana, Yaadia lewisagassizi, Yaadia pinea, Yaadia romanovskii, Yaadia tryoniana, Yaadia whiteavesi

Type specimen: UCLA 38634. Its type locality is CIT loc. 1159, Dayton Canyon, which is in a Campanian marine siliciclastic in the Chatsworth Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (5: California collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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