Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combinations: Venus (Clementia) papyracea, Venus papyracea
Belongs to Clementia (Clementia) according to M. C. Perrilliat 1994
See also Cox 1936, Iqbal 1980, Jensen 1996, Kosnik 2002, Mukerjee 1939, Oostingh 1935, Tiwari and Kachhara 2003, Tomida and Nakamura 2001 and Vredenburg 1928
Sister taxa: Clementia (Clementia) dariena, Clementia (Clementia) deshayesi, Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis, Clementia (Clementia) parinensis, Clementia (Clementia) protopapyracea, Clementia (Clementia) restinensis
Subtaxa: Venus (Clementia) papyracea grandis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (1), Eritrea (2), Kenya (2), Pakistan (1), Yemen (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (1)
• Pliocene of India (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), Pakistan (4), the Philippines (2)
• Miocene of India (2), Indonesia (4), Iran (2), Japan (1), Pakistan (6), the Philippines (1), Somalia (5)
• Oligocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 43 collections each including a single occurrence
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