Allorisma King 1844 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae

Alternative spelling: Allerisma

Full reference: W. King. 1844. On a new genus of Paleozoic shells. Annual Magazine of Natural History (Series 1) 14:313-317

Parent taxon: Edmondiidae according to N. J. Morris et al. 1991

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Hall 1852 and Wilson 1959

Sister taxa: Edmondia, Globicarina, Notomya, Scaldia

Subtaxa: Allorisma albequus Allorisma altirostrata Allorisma carniolicum Allorisma consanguinatum Allorisma costatum Allorisma depressa Allorisma dubium Allorisma inflectoventris Allorisma padangensis Allorisma stachei Allorisma tornquisti Allorisma waageni

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Slovenia (1 collection)

• Permian of Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), China (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Pakistan (3), United States (21: Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Yukon), the United Kingdom (3), United States (23: California, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia)

• Silurian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 63 collections including 67 occurrences

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