Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Full reference: R. W. Imlay. 1961. Characteristic lower Cretaceous megafossils from northern Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 335
Belongs to Tancredia according to R. W. Imlay 1961
Sister taxa: Tancredia (Corburella), Tancredia (Isotancredia), Tancredia (Palaeomya), Tancredia (Paratancredia), Tancredia (Tancredia), Tancredia africana, Tancredia allani, Tancredia americana, Tancredia beneckei, Tancredia donaciformis, Tancredia elongata, Tancredia knowltoni, Tancredia plana, Tancredia slavichi, Tancredia stelcki
Type specimen: USNM 128620. Its type locality is USGS 24468 - Kukpowruk River, North Slope, which is in an Albian coastal siltstone/shale in the Kukpowruk Formation of Alaska.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2 collections), United States (2: Alaska)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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