Clementia inequalis Wiedey 1928 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: L. W. Wiedey. 1928. Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(10):95-182

Belongs to Clementia according to L. W. Wiedey 1928

Sister taxa: Clementia (Clementia), Clementia (Egesta), Clementia conradiana, Clementia elongata, Clementia fischeri

Type specimen: SDSNH 34, a valve. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 406, South Mountain, which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in the Vaqueros Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 406, South Mountain

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