Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178
Belongs to Callocardia (Agriopoma) according to Gardner 1944
Sister taxa: Callocardia (Agriopoma) aresta, Callocardia (Agriopoma) castoriana, Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia, Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis, Callocardia (Agriopoma) prunensis, Callocardia (Agriopoma) subnasuta, Callocardia (Agriopoma) texasiana
Type specimen: USNM 325564, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Wilmington - Waccamaw Formation (Quaternary of North Carolina)
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