Crassatella (Crassatella) ignara Berezovsky 2018 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Full reference: A. A. Berezovsky. 2018. Upper Eocene Bivalves from Dnepr, Ukraine: Crassatellidae. Paleontological Journal 52(11):1225-1291

Belongs to Crassatella (Crassatella) according to A. A. Berezovsky 2018

Sister taxa: Crassatella (Crassatella) duplex, Crassatella (Crassatella) lirasculpta, Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis, Crassatella (Crassatella) necopina, Crassatella (Crassatella) oblongula, Crassatella (Crassatella) parisiensis

Type specimen: M KNU, no. M-108/1, a valve (right valve). Its type locality is channel of the Dnieper River under the Amursky Bridge, Dnepr, which is in a Priabonian perireef or subreef sandstone/sandstone in the Mandrikovka Formation of Ukraine.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at channel of the Dnieper River under the Amursky Bridge, Dnepr

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