Phacoides andersoni Olsson 1930 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1930. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(62):1-164

Belongs to Phacoides according to A. A. Olsson 1930

Sister taxa: Phacoides (Bellucina), Phacoides (Phacoides), Phacoides californicus, Phacoides cerma, Phacoides eaglesomei, Phacoides eudaidalus, Phacoides hillsboroensis, Phacoides nocariensis, Phacoides ocalanus, Phacoides pacifica, Phacoides pectinatus, Phacoides perovatus, Phacoides pullensis, Phacoides silicatus, Phacoides subrhomboidalis, Phacoides subsquamosa, Phacoides thalassogonus, Phacoides wacissanus, Phacoides woodi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Lomitos Cgl, Talara Fm - Yasila and Jaquay Cunas, which is in a Bartonian coastal sandstone in the Talara Formation of Peru

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Phacoides andersoni in the database

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