Fimbria africana 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 Fimbria according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

Sister taxa: Fimbria (Omphaloclathrum), Fimbria astartiformis, Fimbria fimbriata, Fimbria furoni, Fimbria jamaicensis, Fimbria lajoyei, Fimbria mellingi, Fimbria pacifica, Fimbria regularis, Fimbria semireticulata, Fimbria sowerbyi, Fimbria striaticostata, Fimbria subdavidsoni, Fimbria subpectunculus, Fimbria susanensis, Fimbria vernoni, Corbis scarsellai, Corbis claibornensis, Corbis manzavinii, Corbis elliptica, Corbis lirata, Corbis concinna, Corbis staminea, Corbis major, Corbis lamellosa, Corbis plana, Corbis laticostata, Corbis undata, Corbis lajoyei, Corbis imbricata

Type specimen: UIMG 486. Its type locality is Ewekoro Quarry, which is in a Selandian open shallow subtidal packstone in the Ewekoro Formation of Nigeria.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.