Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: G. Stefanini. 1939. Molluschi del Giuralias della Somalia, Gasteropodi e Lamellibranchi [Jurassic molluscs from Somalia, gastropods and bivalves]. Palaeontographia Italica 32(4):103-270
Belongs to Cyprina according to G. Stefanini 1939
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica mediale, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina lens, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina escheri
Type specimen: Its type locality is Anole Issa, Oolitico inferiore, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian marine horizon in Somalia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Anole Issa, Oolitico inferiore
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