Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: R. Rivera. 1957. Moluscos fosiles de la Formacion Paracas, Dpto. de Ica. Sociedad Geologica del Peru Primer Congreso Nacional de Geologia Anales - Parte II 32:165-219
Belongs to Dosinia according to R. Rivera 1957
Sister taxa: Dosinia (Asa), Dosinia (Austrodosinia), Dosinia (Dosinella), Dosinia (Dosinia), Dosinia (Dosinobia), Dosinia (Dosinorbis), Dosinia (Kakahuia), Dosinia (Kaneharaia), Dosinia (Kereia), Dosinia (Phacosoma), Dosinia (Raina), Dosinia acetabulum, Dosinia africana, Dosinia alta, Dosinia burckhardti, Dosinia caerulea, Dosinia castigata, Dosinia chipolana, Dosinia conradi, Dosinia discus, Dosinia dunkeri, Dosinia excisa, Dosinia exoleta, Dosinia falconensis, Dosinia histrio, Dosinia imparistriata, Dosinia jacalitosana, Dosinia kaspiewi, Dosinia lawsoni, Dosinia lechuzaensis, Dosinia longula, Dosinia lupina, Dosinia mastrichtiensis, Dosinia mercenaroidea, Dosinia meridonalis, Dosinia morani, Dosinia nomurai, Dosinia orbicularis, Dosinia pertenuis, Dosinia ponderosa, Dosinia protojuvenilis, Dosinia pseudoargus, Dosinia santana, Dosinia scalaris, Dosinia sculpta, Dosinia semiobliterata, Dosinia tugaruana, Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana, Dosinia (Dosinidia) dalli, Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans, Dosinidia palmerae, Artemis orbignyi, Artemis lenticularis, Dosinia (Artemis) tenuis, Artemis lincta, Artemis lentiformis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cerro Colorado, Eocene, which is in an Eocene marine sandstone in the Paracas Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Cerro Colorado, Eocene
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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