Vesicomyidae, Dall and Simpson, 1901

Kiel, Steffen, Fernando, Allan Gil S., Magtoto, Clarence Y. & Kase, Tomoki, 2022, Mollusks from Miocene hydrocarbon-seep deposits in the Ilocos-Central Luzon Basin, Luzon Island, Philippines, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (4), pp. 917-947 : 933

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00977.2022
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0470A855-EA68-FF89-FCAF-FF4D8EA4FC8F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Vesicomyidae
status

Treatment

Vesicomyidae View in CoL gen. et sp. indet. 2

Fig. 16B View Fig .

Material.— Seven specimens from block E ( NRM Mo 192422–192427, 192435). Upper Miocene of the “shale quarry” within the Northern Cement Corporation quarry in Pangasinan province, Luzon, Philippines .

Dimensions (in mm).—NRM Mo 192424: L = 11.7, H = 9.5; NRM Mo 192425: L = 14.7, H = 12.0; NRM Mo 192426: L = 10.8, H = 9.8, W = 7.0; NRM Mo 192427: L = 11.8, H = 10.8, W = 8.3; NRM Mo 192435: L = 10.2, H = 8.4.

Remarks.—This small species is shorter and more inflated than vesicomyid sp. 1 reported above. It resembles the smaller of the specimens reported as Vesicomya margotae Beets, 1953 , from the Pliocene of Leyte Island, Philippines ( Kiel et al. 2020a: fig. 18A), and is also similar to Vesicomya nakaii Okutani, 1962 , for example as illustrated from the Pliocene of Leyte Island, Philippines ( Kiel et al. 2020a: fig. 19A). But as internal characters cannot be assessed, we prefer to keep these specimens in open nomenclature.