Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Alternative combination: Cuspidaria (Cardiomya) soriensis
Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482
Belongs to Cardiomya (Cardiomya) according to R. P. Kachhara et al. 2011
See also Eames 1951
Sister taxon: Cardiomya (Cardiomya) islahispaniolae
Type specimen: L. 80421, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2680, Zinda Pir, which is in a Ypresian marine shale in the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal carnivore
Distribution: found only at Narayan Sarovar Rd [Fulra Dam Fm]
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