†Elliptiolucina washingtonia Kiel 2013 (clam)
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Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Full reference: S. Kiel. 2013. Lucinid bivalves from ancient methane seeps. Journal of Molluscan Studies 79:346-363
Belongs to Elliptiolucina according to S. Kiel 2013
Sister taxon: Elliptiolucina hetzeli
Type specimen: GZG.INV.88327, a shell. Its type locality is Satsop River, west fork, which is in a Rupelian basinal (carbonate) limestone in the Lincoln Creek Formation of Washington.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Satsop River, west fork
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