Bivalvia - Venerida - Mactridae

Full reference: J. H. Signorelli. 2011. New taxonomic names, in A Synoptical Classification of the Bivalvia (Mollusca). University of Kansas Paleontological Institute Paleontological Contributions 4:1-47

Parent taxon: Mactridae according to J. H. Signorelli 2019

See also Carter et al. 2011 and Signorelli and Carter 2016

Sister taxa: Darcinia, Leptomactra, Longimactra, Lutrariinae, Mactrinae, Mactropsis, Mulinoides, Pteroluter, Pteropsis, Scissodesma, Tanysiphoninae, Willimactra, Zenatiinae, Gnathodon

Subtaxa: Darina

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Las Peñas [Tubul Fm] (Quaternary of Chile)

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