Pandora (Pandora) acutirostrata Clark 1918 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae

Full reference: B. L. Clark. 1918. The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 11(2):45-234

Belongs to Pandora (Pandora) according to B. L. Clark 1918

Sister taxa: Pandora (Pandora) arctica, Pandora (Pandora) glacialis, Pandora (Pandora) gouldiana, Pandora (Pandora) trilineata

Type specimen: UCMP 11111. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1131, Walnut Creek, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: California collection)

• Oligocene of United States (1: California)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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