Cyprimeria moorei Popenoe 1937 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: W. P. Popenoe. 1937. Upper Cretaceous Mollusca from Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 11(5):379-402

Belongs to Cyprimeria according to W. P. Popenoe 1937

Sister taxa: Cyprimeria discus, Cyprimeria subalata, Meretrix (Cyprimeria) oldhamiana

Type specimen: CIT (IP) 3440. Its type locality is CIT loc. 92, Harding Canyon, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Turonian marine horizon in the Ladd Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (3: California collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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