Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Alternative combinations: Lyratellina protolyra, Tellina protolyra

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1929. Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences 18(4):73-213

Belongs to Tellina (Miratellina) according to W. P. Woodring 1982

See also Anderson 1929

Sister taxa: Tellina (Miratellina) aequizonata, Tellina (Miratellina) anaxia

Type specimen: CAS 4163, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 267 (horizon M-N), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm], which is in a Miocene marine siliciclastic in the Tubará Formation of Colombia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 267 (horizon M-N), Tubará Mtn [Tubará Fm]

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