Pachythaerus similoides Vokes 1946 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Full reference: H. E. Vokes. 1946. Contributions to the paleontology of the Lebanon Mountains, Republic of Lebanon. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 87(3):139-216

Belongs to Pachythaerus according to H. E. Vokes 1946

Sister taxa: Crassatella (Pachythaerus) yanagisawai, Pachythaerus vindinnensis

Type specimen: AMNH 26009. Its type locality is Olive Locality, which is in an Aptian coastal sandstone in the Abeih Formation of Lebanon.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Olive Locality

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