Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Chione sechuntana
Full reference: G. D. Hanna and M. C. Israelsky. 1925. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of Peru. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 14(2):37-75
Belongs to Chione (Chionopsis) according to W. P. Woodring 1982
See also Hanna and Israelsky 1925
Sister taxa: Chione (Chionopsis) angelana, Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis, Chione (Chionopsis) eurylopas, Chione (Chionopsis) jamaniana, Chione (Chionopsis) manabia, Chione (Chionopsis) posorjensis, Chione (Chionopsis) propinqua, Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni, Chione (Chionopsis) semiplicata, Chione (Chionopsis) spiekeri, Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum, Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis, Chione (Chionopsis) traftoni, Chione (Chionopsis) variabilis, Chione (Chionopsis) venadoensis, Chione (Chionopsis) wiedenmayeri, Chionopsis (Puberella), Chionopsis amathusia, Chionopsis crenifera, Chionopsis gnidia, Chionopsis lilacina, Chionopsis munsterii, Chionopsis ornatissima, Chionopsis pubera, Chionopsis pulicaria, Chionopsis woodwardi
Type specimen: CAS 1724, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 339, Boca Pan [Zorritos Fm], which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Zorritos Formation of Peru.
Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 339, Boca Pan [Zorritos Fm]
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