Verticordia lockei Ward and Blackwelder 1987 (clam)

Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae

Full reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283

Belongs to Verticordia according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987

Sister taxa: Verticordia (Verticordia), Verticordia cossmanni, Verticordia eocensis, Verticordia excavata, Verticordia granulosa, Verticordia novemcostata, Verticordia pectinata, Verticordia rhomboidea, Verticordia sotoensis

Type specimen: USNM 204013

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Verticordia lockei in the database

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