Pandora eocapsella Hickman 2014 (clam)

Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae

Full reference: C. S. Hickman. 2014. Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, part IV: The anomalodesmatans. PaleoBios 31(3):1-21

Belongs to Pandora according to C. S. Hickman 2014

Sister taxa: Pandora (Frenamya), Pandora (Heteroclidus), Pandora (Pandora), Pandora (Pandorella), Pandora cistula, Pandora copiosa, Pandora dilatata, Pandora grandis, Pandora inaequivalvis, Pandora laevis, Pandora pimaeva, Pandora scapha, Pandora washingtonensis

Type specimen: UCmP 110671. Its type locality is Columbia (USGS 25026) - Hickman (1980), which is in a Priabonian deep-water siltstone/mudstone in the Keasey Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Columbia (USGS 25026) - Hickman (1980)

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