†Loxo decore Dailey and Popenoe 1966 (venus clam)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: D. H. Dailey and W. P. Popenoe. 1966. Mollusca from the upper Cretaceous Jalama Formation, Santa Barbara County, California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 65:1-41
Belongs to Loxo according to D. H. Dailey and W. P. Popenoe 1966
Sister taxon: Loxo quintense
Type specimen: UCLA 40418. Its type locality is UCLA Loc. 3796 - San Antonio del Mar, which is in a Maastrichtian coastal siliciclastic in Mexico.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections), United States (4: California)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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