Oxytoma kiparisovae Tozer 1961 (scallop)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae

Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116

Belongs to Oxytoma according to E. T. Tozer 1961

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GSC 14215, a valve (left valve). Its type locality is GSC 28687, Ellesmere Island, which is in a Norian marine siliciclastic in the Heiberg Formation of Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Canada (4: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), Peru (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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