Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Solemyidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1951. A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235:311-482

Belongs to Solemya according to F. E. Eames 1951

Sister taxa: Solemya (Petrasma), Solemya (Solemya), Solemya abbreviata, Solemya funingensis, Solemya lomitensis, Solemya occidentalis, Solemya parallella, Solemya petricoloides, Solemya radiata, Solemya sulcifera, Solemya trapezoides, Solemya velum, Solemya ventricosa

Type specimen: L. 79866, a shell. Its type locality is Rakhi Nala, Pakistan, which is in an Eocene marine shale/limestone in Pakistan.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic

Average measurements (in mm): shell 18.2 x 8.0