Tucetona usiacurii Anderson 1929

Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

Alternative combination: Glycymeris usiacurii

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213

Belongs to Tucetona according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008

See also Anderson 1929

Sister taxa: Glycymeris (Tucetona) evermanni, Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis, Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini, Glycymeris (Tucetona) ruckmani, Glycymeris (Tucetona) tenuimbricata, Glycymeris (Tucetona) verticordia, Tucetona (Bellaxinaea), Tucetona acuticostata, Tucetona angusticosta, Tucetona arata, Tucetona auriflua, Tucetona broadfooti, Tucetona castaneus, Tucetona convexus, Tucetona democraciana, Tucetona finlayi, Tucetona flabellata, Tucetona gealei, Tucetona hoylei, Tucetona lamyi, Tucetona laticostata, Tucetona lenticularis, Tucetona oculatus, Tucetona odhneri, Tucetona pectinata, Tucetona pectunculus, Tucetona sabinensis, Tucetona scalarisculpta, Tucetona sordida, Tucetona strigilata, Tucetona subtilis

Type specimen: CAS 4688, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 325, Usiacuri, east of [Tubará Fm], which is in a Pliocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 325, Usiacuri, east of [Tubará Fm]

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