Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Callocardia (Agriopoma) californica
Full reference: B. L. Clark. 1918. The San Lorenzo series of Middle California. a stratigraphic and paleontologic study of the San Lorenzo Oligocene series of the general region of Mount Diablo, California. University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology 11(2):45-234
Belongs to Pitaria (Katherinella) according to J. W. Durham 1944
Sister taxa: Katherinella (Katherinella), Katherinella arnoldi, Katherinella smithvillensis, Katherinella texitrina, Katherinella trinitatis
Type specimen: UCMP 11107. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 1131, Walnut Creek, which is in an Oligocene marine horizon in California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (4: California collections)
• Eocene of United States (5: California)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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