Parvilucina elegantissima Adegoke 1977 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: O. S. Adegoke. 1977. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Ewekoro Formation (Paleocene) of Southwestern Nigeria. Bulletins of American Paleontology 71(295):1-379

Belongs to Parvilucina according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

Sister taxa: Lucina (Parvilucina) callosana, Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta, Parvilucina (Callucinella), Parvilucina (Parvilucina), Parvilucina chavani, Parvilucina costata, Parvilucina crenella, Parvilucina crenulata, Parvilucina mazatlanica, Parvilucina multistriata, Parvilucina pusilla, Parvilucina seminulum, Parvilucina tenuisculpta, Parvilucina yaquensis, Phacoides (Parvilucina) prunus

Type specimen: UIMG 482. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry

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