†Plastomiltha odontota Woodring 1982 (clam)
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Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1982. Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 306(F)
Belongs to Plastomiltha according to W. P. Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 647335, a shell. Its type locality is Location 23b, Rio Palenque [Gatuncillo Formation], which is in an Eocene coastal mudstone in the Gatuncillo Formation of Panama.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Location 23b, Rio Palenque [Gatuncillo Formation]
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