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Donacidae

Donacidae

Overview

Donacidae Fleming, 1828

Common Name: Bean Clams

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: The donacidae have triangle shaped shells with one side typically more elongated than the other.

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Paleoecology: 

        MOBILITY: Mobile

        FEEDING MODE: Suspension Feeder

        HABITAT: Infaunal

Sources:

Cox, L. R. et al. 1969. Bivalvia, in R. C. Moore ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6, Volume 2. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 1224 pp.


Genera of Donacidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway