Yoldia sammamishensis Weaver 1912 (clam)

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae

Full reference: C. E. Weaver. 1912. A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington. Washington Geological Survey Bulletin 15:1-80

Belongs to Yoldia according to C. E. Weaver 1912

Sister taxa: Yoldia (Cnesterium), Yoldia (Kalayoldia), Yoldia (Mirayoldia), Yoldia (Nampiella), Yoldia (Sachalinella), Yoldia (Yoldia), Yoldia blakeleyensis, Yoldia bocasensis, Yoldia clydoniona, Yoldia cupressensis, Yoldia diminutiva, Yoldia dowlingi, Yoldia duprei, Yoldia freytagi, Yoldia gala, Yoldia gladenkovi, Yoldia hikoshimensis, Yoldia impressa, Yoldia inaequisculpta, Yoldia kermadecensis, Yoldia kissoumi, Yoldia lacrima, Yoldia laevis, Yoldia limatula, Yoldia mater, Yoldia mcconnelli, Yoldia nasuta, Yoldia newcombi, Yoldia nitida, Yoldia olympiana, Yoldia peninsularis, Yoldia pisciformis, Yoldia rectangularis, Yoldia sagittalia, Yoldia sapotilla, Yoldia scaphoides, Yoldia serica, Yoldia subscitula, Yoldia supramontereyana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Issaquah, northeast, which is in a Miocene marine sandstone in Washington

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of United States (1: Washington collection)

• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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