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Conchocele bisecta, Giant cleftclam

Conchocele bisecta (Conrad, 1849)

Invalid synonym: Thyasira bisecta, Thyasira (Conchocele) bisecta, Conchocele disjuncta (after Coan and Scott, 1997)

• Modern species: Eocene - Present (37.2 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine, 4-1,400 m deep, Mud bottoms

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Thyasiridae, genus Conchocele

• Distribution
• Oligocene-Miocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Fukushima, Tochigi, Chiba
• Pliocene: Ishikawa
• Investigation in progress: Nagano, Saitama (Miocene?)