†Amakusatapes lassula Stoliczka 1871 (venus clam)
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Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combinations: Cytherea lassula, Meretrix lassula
Full reference: F. Stoliczka. 1871. Cretaceous fauna of southern India. Vol. III. The Pelecypoda, with a review of all known genera of this class, fossil and recent. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 1 -537
Belongs to Amakusatapes according to M. Tashiro and M. Otsuka 1982
See also Rossi-Ronchetti and Albanesi 1961 and Stoliczka 1871
Sister taxon: Amakusatapes ovatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of India (1 collection), Libya (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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