Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Full reference: B.J. Chronic. 1949. Invertebrate paleontology (excepting fuslinids and corals). Upper Paleozoic of Peru 46-173
Belongs to Astartella according to J. Chronic 1953
See also Chronic 1949
Sister taxa: Astartella adenticulata, Astartella ambiensis, Astartella aueri, Astartella clinata, Astartella compacta, Astartella concentrica, Astartella consimilis, Astartella doulingensis, Astartella gemmifera, Astartella guangxingensis, Astartella gurleyi, Astartella huangnijiangensis, Astartella illinoiensis, Astartella meridionalis, Astartella minuta, Astartella multicostata, Astartella nasuta, Astartella obliqua, Astartella omolonica, Astartella permocarbonica, Astartella pindensis, Astartella progenetrix, Astartella pusilla, Astartella quadrata, Astartella qubuensis, Astartella raricostata, Astartella simulans, Astartella stefaniae, Astartella subquadrata, Astartella symmetrica, Astartella toyomensis, Astartella tunstallensis, Astartella vallisneriana, Astartella varica, Astartella vera
Type specimen: AMNH 27047/1:2, a valve (Left valve). Its type locality is AMNH286, Bed 7, Cerro Caya Caya Section 18, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Peru.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at AMNH286, Bed 7, Cerro Caya Caya Section 18
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