Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Alternative combination: Mactra montereyana
Full reference: R. Arnold. 1908. Descriptions of new Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils from the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 34(1617):345-389
Belongs to Mactromeris according to E. J. Moore 2003
See also Packard 1916
Sister taxa: Mactromeris abbotti, Mactromeris acutirostrata, Mactromeris aequilateralis, Mactromeris albaria, Mactromeris beali, Mactromeris bisculpturata, Mactromeris brevirostrata, Mactromeris capayana, Mactromeris catilliformis, Mactromeris coalingensis, Mactromeris eugenensis, Mactromeris gaviotaensis, Mactromeris hannibali, Mactromeris hemphillii, Mactromeris markleyensis, Mactromeris mercedensis, Mactromeris merriami, Mactromeris mossbeachensis, Mactromeris muliniaformis, Mactromeris occidentalis, Mactromeris pittsburgensis, Mactromeris polynyma, Mactromeris ramonensis, Mactromeris rushi, Mactromeris sectoris, Mactromeris sisquocensis, Mactromeris subquadrata, Mactromeris tejonensis, Mactromeris tenuissima, Mactromeris trampasensis, Mactromeris voyi, Mactromeris weaveri
Type specimen: USNM 165463, a shell. Its type locality is Love Creek, Felton, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian coastal mudstone/siltstone in the Monterey Formation of California.
Distribution: found only at Love Creek, Felton
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