Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Parent taxon: Meretricinae according to O. S. Adegoke 1977

See also Cox et al. 1969 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cytherea, Cytheriopsis, Eomeretrix, Grateloupia, Meretricini, Meretrissa, Meretrix, Resatrix, Tivela, Tivelina

Subtaxa: Aeora africana

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Ewekoro Quarry (Paleocene of Nigeria)

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