Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae

Full reference: C. W. Cooke. 1919. Tertiary mollusks from the Leeward Islands and Cuba. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Carnegie Institution of Washington 105-156

Belongs to Unio according to M. Barrios 1960

See also Cooke 1919

Sister taxa: Unio (Palaeunio), Unio belliplicatus, Unio carteri, Unio deserticus, Unio franconica, Unio galloprovincialis, Unio hamili, Unio hubbardii, Unio hunteri, Unio imbricatus, Unio johnstoni, Unio kirchbergensis, Unio littoralis, Unio mamillatus, Unio natosini, Unio patapscoensis, Unio penultimus, Unio peregrinus, Unio pictorum, Unio rackianus, Unio regularis, Unio scrobicularioides, Unio sparsa, Unio stricklandii, Unio tumidus, Unio vetustus

Type specimen: USNM 167063, a shell. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USNM 3652, 5312

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