Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
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 according to J. W. Durham 1944
Sister taxa: Pitaria (Pitaria), Pitaria altoumbonata, Pitaria ashiyaensis, Pitaria baldryi, Pitaria behri, Pitaria buenavistana, Pitaria calcanea, Pitaria californiana, Pitaria concinna, Pitaria conradi, Pitaria intica, Pitaria kyushuensis, Pitaria matsumotoi, Pitaria obscurate, Pitaria palmeri, Pitaria silicifluvia, Pitaria sorrentoensis, Pitaria takashimaensis, Pitaria verticala, Pitaria yasila, Pitaria yokoyamai
Type specimen: UCMP 11129. 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 (1: California collection)
• Eocene of United States (4: California)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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