Transennella africana Adegoke 1977 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

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 Transennella according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

Sister taxa: Transennella bolivarensis, Transennella caboblanquensis, Transennella californica, Transennella cola, Transennella conradina, Transennella cubaniana, Transennella galapagana, Transennella joaquinensis, Transennella puella, Transennella stimpsoni

Type specimen: UIMG 555. 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 suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry

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