Crassatellites brainerdi Dickerson 1914 (clam)

Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae

Full reference: R. E. Dickerson. 1914. New molluscan species from the Martinez Eocene of southern California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 8(15):299-304

Belongs to Crassatellites according to R. E. Dickerson 1914

Sister taxa: Crassatella (Crassatella), Crassatella (Landinia), Crassatella antestriata, Crassatella aquiana, Crassatella arcacea, Crassatella astartiformis, Crassatella austriaca, Crassatella baudeti, Crassatella bosquetiana, Crassatella branneri, Crassatella carcarensis, Crassatella carmanahensis, Crassatella carolinensis, Crassatella caudata, Crassatella chargensis, Crassatella chiesai, Crassatella clarkensis, Crassatella claytonensis, Crassatella collina, Crassatella compacta, Crassatella compressa, Crassatella conradiana, Crassatella corioensis, Crassatella corrugata, Crassatella cowlitzensis, Crassatella cygnea, Crassatella dalli, Crassatella dennanti, Crassatella dennati, Crassatella densus, Crassatella desioi, Crassatella desmaresti, Crassatella desvauxi, Crassatella elongata, Crassatella eutawcolens, Crassatella flexura, Crassatella fusca, Crassatella gamma, Crassatella haughtoni, Crassatella hauniensis, Crassatella hodgei, Crassatella kalitensis, Crassatella kroisbachensis, Crassatella lillisi, Crassatella lincolnensis, Crassatella lomana, Crassatella longior, Crassatella macrodonta, Crassatella manzourensis, Crassatella marrotiana, Crassatella meganosensis, Crassatella mercedensis, Crassatella merriami, Crassatella mulates, Crassatella neorhynchus, Crassatella numidica, Crassatella oenana, Crassatella patagonica, Crassatella pedroi, Crassatella perrini, Crassatella plumbea, Crassatella portelli, Crassatella radiata, Crassatella rafaeli, Crassatella rhomboidea, Crassatella rothii, Crassatella saulae, Crassatella scutellaria, Crassatella stewartvillensis, Crassatella stillwaterensis, Crassatella studleyi, Crassatella sulcata, Crassatella symmetrica, Crassatella texalta, Crassatella trapaquara, Crassatella tumidula, Crassatella unioides, Crassatella uvasana, Crassatella vadosa, Crassatella washingtoniana, Crassatella weaveri, Crassatella willcoxi, Crassatellites neusensis, Crassatellites texana, Crassatellites iheringi, Crassatellites camurus, Crassatellites yabei, Crassatellites negreetensis, Crassatellites exiguus, Crassatellites paramesus, Crassatellites matsuraensis, Crassatellites (Crassatellites), Crassatellites inconspicuus, Crassatellites maroimensis, Crassatellites berryi, Crassatellites asakuraensis

Type specimen: no number listed, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2233, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Lutetian marine horizon in the Santiago Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP loc. 2233, Santa Ana Mountains

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