Bivalvia - Venerida - Veneridae
Alternative combinations: Pitar (Pitarella) chiraensis, Pitar chiraensis
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 Agriopoma (Pitarella) according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Olsson and Richards 1961
Sister taxa: Pitarella (Pitarella), Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis, Pitar (Pitarella) colombiana, Agriopoma (Pitarella) calceola, Agriopoma (Pitarella) tumbezana
Type specimen: Its type locality is 3-4 miles north of Casa Saman, Chira Valley, which is in a Priabonian marine shale/ash in the Chira Formation of Peru
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Colombia (1 collection)
• Eocene of Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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