Cosa Finlay 1926 (clam)

Bivalvia - Arcida - Philobryidae

Parent taxon: Philobryidae according to H. E. Vokes 1980

See also Lamprell and Healy 1998, Sepkoski 2002 and Spencer et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Cratis, Eophilobryoidella, Micromytilus, Notomytilus, Philobrya, Limarca

Subtaxa: Cosa costata Cosa dispar Cosa laevicostata Cosa serratocostata

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Type: Hochstetteria costata

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Point Flinders - Glen Aire Clay (Oligocene of Australia)

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