Mya (Cryptomya) incognita Clark 1918 (softshell clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadida - Myidae

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 Mya (Cryptomya) according to B. L. Clark 1918

Sister taxa: Cryptomya californica, Cryptomya quadrata, Cryptomya washingtoniana

Type specimen: UCMP 11114. 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: found only at UCMP loc. 1131, Walnut Creek

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