Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative combination: Volupia bolivarensis
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1928. Notes on Lower Tertiary deposits of Colombia and their molluscan and foraminiferal fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 17(1):1-29
Belongs to Lucina (Here) according to B. L. Clark and J. W. Durham 1946
See also Anderson 1928
Sister taxa: Here (Here), Here (Herella), Here excavata, Here glenni, Lucina (Here) aragoensis, Lucina (Here) colombiana, Lucina (Here) edwilsoni, Phacoides (Here) hamatus
Type specimen: CAS 2692, a shell. Its type locality is El Carmen, 6 mi. W of (Horizon F), which is in a Bartonian coastal shale/sandstone in Colombia.
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at El Carmen, 6 mi. W of (Horizon F)
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