Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1938. Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper 16:1-331
Belongs to Opis according to F. M. Anderson 1938
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 virginalis
Type specimen: Its type locality is CIT loc1347, Roaring River, which is in a Turonian/Coniacian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Opis shastalis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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