Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae

Full reference: B. L. Clark and A. O. Woodford. 1927. The geology and paleontology of the type section of the Meganos Formation (lower Middle Eocene) of California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 17(2):63-142

Belongs to Periploma according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Clark and Woodford 1927

Sister taxa: Periploma (Aelga), Periploma (Offadesma), Periploma (Periploma), Periploma acuta, Periploma ariei, Periploma binominata, Periploma caribana, Periploma claibornense, Periploma clarki, Periploma collardi, Periploma cryphia, Periploma discus, Periploma eodiscus, Periploma iesakai, Periploma inaequivalve, Periploma japonica, Periploma johnseni, Periploma margaritacea, Periploma margaritaceum, Periploma ovatum, Periploma peralta, Periploma santaecrucis, Periploma venezuelana

Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP 3148, Stewartville, which is in a Ypresian coastal sandstone in the Meganos Formation of California

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP 3148, Stewartville

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