Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Pitaria boucaryensis
Full reference: A. A. Olsson. 1922. The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica. Bulletins of American Paleontology 9(39):1-309
Belongs to Lamelliconcha according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also Olsson 1922
Sister taxa: Hysteroconcha (Lamelliconcha) protophilippinarum, Lamelliconcha acutecostata, Lamelliconcha aequicincta, Lamelliconcha anona, Lamelliconcha ayabaca, Lamelliconcha casta, Lamelliconcha charanica, Lamelliconcha circinata, Lamelliconcha clarki, Lamelliconcha concinna, Lamelliconcha cora, Lamelliconcha guppyana, Lamelliconcha hillii, Lamelliconcha kawadai, Lamelliconcha labreana, Lamelliconcha mellisa, Lamelliconcha musanica, Lamelliconcha negritensis, Lamelliconcha parinensis, Lamelliconcha paytensis, Lamelliconcha samanensis, Lamelliconcha saponaria, Lamelliconcha tortuosus, Lamelliconcha unicolor, Lamelliconcha vinaceus, Lamelliconcha wolfi, Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) baldryi, Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) eocenica
Type specimen: Its type locality is Boucary Creek, which is in a Pliocene marine siliciclastic in Costa Rica
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Boucary Creek
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