Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative combination: Cubatea asphaltica
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 Myrtaea according to S. Kiel 2013
See also Cooke 1919 and Kiel et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Myrtaea (Levimyrtaea), Myrtaea cookei, Myrtea (Myrtea), Myrtea (Myrteopsis), Myrtea curta, Myrtea ezoensis, Myrtea gabbi, Myrtea spinifera
Type specimen: USNM 167186, a shell. Its type locality is USNM 3652, 5312, which is in a Ypresian/Bartonian coastal tar in Cuba.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal photosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at USNM 3652, 5312
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