Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative combinations: Chione allporti, Venus allporti

Full reference: J. E. Tenison Woods. 1876. On some Tertiary fossils from Table Cape. Proceedingsof the Royal Society of Tasmania 13-26

Belongs to Callanaitis according to T. A. Darragh 1970

See also Tenison Woods 1876

Sister taxa: Chione (Circomphalus) isabellina, Circomphalus strigillinus, Circomphalus subplicatus, Callanaitis disjecta

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Table Cape, Tasmania (inc. Freestone Cove Sst and Fossil Bluff Sst) (Miocene of Australia)

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