Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299
Belongs to Psammobia according to T. A. Conrad 1848
Sister taxa: Gari (Psammobia) patagonica, Psammobia auriformis, Psammobia bervillei, Psammobia burmeisteri, Psammobia caillati, Psammobia cerasia, Psammobia crassatellaeformis, Psammobia cuisensis, Psammobia cylindrica, Psammobia debilis, Psammobia donacilla, Psammobia eborea, Psammobia ferroensis, Psammobia filosa, Psammobia gubernatoria, Psammobia hamiltonensis, Psammobia inaequilateralis, Psammobia inconspicua, Psammobia jonesi, Psammobia kingi, Psammobia lamarckii, Psammobia lintea, Psammobia neglecta, Psammobia obscura, Psammobia plana, Psammobia spathula, Psammobia tellinella, Psammobia tenuicula, Psammobia vaudini, Psammobia vespertina
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg
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