Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Alternative combination: Chione angulata

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:57-217

Belongs to Nelltia according to L. R. Saul 1973

See also Gabb 1864 and Stewart 1930

Sister taxa: Nelltia roddana, Nelltia salsa, Nelltia skidgatensis, Nelltia stenzeli

Type specimen: ANSP 4386, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at UCLA loc. 3917, Texas Springs area (Cretaceous of California)

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