Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124
Belongs to Opis according to C. A. Waring 1917
Sister taxa: Opis (Coelopis), Opis (Hesperopis), Opis (Pachyopis), Opis (Protopis), Opis (Trigonopis), Opis affinis, Opis barnensis, Opis bifrons, Opis bigoti, Opis californica, Opis cardissoides, Opis cloacina, Opis corallina, Opis gortanii, Opis hoeninghausii, Opis ladina, Opis laubei, Opis neocomiensis, Opis shastalis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Southwest of Santa Susana, which is in a Danian transition zone/lower shoreface sandstone in the Las Virgenes Formation of California
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Southwest of Santa Susana
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