Plastomiltha odontota Woodring 1982 (clam)

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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