Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae

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 Solemya according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008

See also Cooke 1919

Sister taxa: Solemya (Austrosolemya), Solemya (Petrasma), Solemya (Pseudacharax), Solemya (Solemya), Solemya (Solemyarina), Solemya (Zesolemya), Solemya abbreviata, Solemya alabamensis, Solemya dalli, Solemya funingensis, Solemya insignifica, Solemya lamarckiana, Solemya lomitensis, Solemya petricoloides, Solemya togata, Solenomya semseyana, Solenomya sharonensis, Solenomya translineata, Solemya (Janeia) minuta, Janeia elliptica, Solenomya (Janeia) trapezoides, Solemya (Janeia) tibetica

Type specimen: USNM 167165, a partial shell. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at USNM 3652, 5312

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