Tihkia silesiaca Skawina and Dzik 2011 (clam)

Bivalvia - Unionida

Full reference: A. Skawina and J. Dzik. 2011. Umbonal musculature and relationships of the Late Triassic filibranch unionoid bivalves. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:863-883

Belongs to Tihkia according to A. Skawina and J. Dzik 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ZPAL V.33/286, a shell. Its type locality is Lipie Slaskie clay-pit, Lisowice, which is in a Norian/Rhaetian terrestrial claystone in the Zbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds Formation of Poland.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lipie Slaskie clay-pit, Lisowice

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