Miltha inflata Abbass 1972 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: H. L. Abbass. 1972. Paleontological studies of some Saudi Arabian lower Tertiary fossils. Egyptian Journal of Geology 16(1):35-68

Belongs to Miltha according to H. L. Abbass 1972

Sister taxa: Lucina (Miltha) contorta, Miltha (Matanziella), Miltha (Miltha), Miltha (Plastomiltha), Miltha (Recticardo), Miltha africana, Miltha childreni, Miltha chipolana, Miltha claibornensis, Miltha hamptonensis, Miltha hillsboroensis, Miltha merangiana, Miltha pandata, Miltha xantusi, Phacoides (Miltha) hernandoensis

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Umm al-Rua’us Formation, Saudi Arabia - Abbass (1972) (Eocene of Saudi Arabia)

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