Pterotrigonioides savagei Cooper 1979 (clam)

Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Pterotrigoniidae

Alternative combination: Pterotrigonia (Pterotrigonia) savagei

Belongs to Pterotrigonioides according to M. R. Cooper 2015

See also Cooper 1979

Sister taxon: Pterotrigonioides rogersi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Knysna, Brenton Formation, Unit II, Western Cape, which is in a Valanginian coastal sandstone in the Brenton Formation of South Africa

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Knysna, Brenton Formation, Unit II, Western Cape

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