Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
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 Chione according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Anderson 1929
Sister taxa: Chione (Anomalodiscus), Chione (Chione), Chione (Gnidiella), Chione auriculata, Chione bolivarensis, Chione californiensis, Chione cancellata, Chione casa, Chione chipolana, Chione cognata, Chione compta, Chione costaricensis, Chione cribraria, Chione dalliana, Chione dictua, Chione elevata, Chione eupyga, Chione guatulcoensis, Chione guppyana, Chione halli, Chione moristans, Chione nuciformis, Chione paraensis, Chione patagonica, Chione rowleei, Chione schencki, Chione subimbricata, Chione subroborata, Chione subrostrata, Chione sulcata, Chione tumens, Chione undatella, Chione veatchiana, Chione venadensis, Chione vickeryi, Chione walli
Type specimen: CAS 4676, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 267 (horizon P), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm], which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 267 (horizon P), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm]
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