Paramusculus (clam)

Bivalvia - Mytilida

Parent taxon: Mytiloida according to W. Kiessling 2003

Sister taxa: Fungiacara, Isognomoidea, Lunulacardioidea, Malleoidea, Modiolopsoidea, Modiomytilus, Myapalmula, Mysidielloidea, Mytiloidea, Mytilon, Regoria, Regulifer, Septiola, Skarlatella, Striamodiolus, Strimodiolus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Flörsheim, Mainz, algal reefs, Hessen (Oligocene of Germany)

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