Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Pitaria (Tivelina) siliqua
Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1928. Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 1. Bulletins of American Paleontology 14(52)
Belongs to Tivelina according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Olsson 1928
Sister taxa: Tivelina analoga, Tivelina baudoni, Tivelina capsuloides, Tivelina coislinensis, Tivelina delicatina, Tivelina deltoidea, Tivelina dixoni, Tivelina ewekoroensis, Tivelina gibbosula, Tivelina idriaensis, Tivelina nuculoides, Tivelina parameces, Tivelina rustica, Tivelina sphenarium, Tivelina subquadrangularis, Tivelina tellinaria, Tivelina vaderensis, Tivelina vincentiana
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Negritos [Negritos Fm] (Eocene of Peru)
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