Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1931. Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene. Bulletins of American Paleontology 17(63)
Belongs to Acharax according to A. A. Olsson 1931
Sister taxa: Acharax (Nacrosolemya), Acharax clarificata, Acharax costellata, Acharax cylindrica, Acharax doderleini, Acharax dunnensis, Acharax frenademezi, Acharax herberti, Acharax holmwoodensis, Acharax incertis, Acharax johnsoni, Acharax normalis, Acharax parallela, Acharax petschorica, Acharax primaeva, Acharax radiata, Acharax solikamica, Acharax stantoni, Acharax ventricosa, Solemya (Acharax) burica, Solemya (Acharax) muroensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Belen and Pajarabobo, which is in a Priabonian deep-water limestone/shale in the Cone Hill Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Belen and Pajarabobo
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