Myrtaea asphaltica Cooke 1919 (clam)

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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