Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Alternative combination: Nucula (Acila) semirostrata
Full reference: U. S. Grant, IV and H. R. Gale. 1931. Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1:1-1036
Belongs to Acila (Acila) according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Grant, IV and Gale 1931 and Woodring 1938
Sister taxa: Acila (Acila) brevis, Acila (Acila) divaricata, Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis, Acila (Acila) isthmica, Acila (Acila) kholmskensis, Acila (Acila) mirabilis, Acila (Acila) praedivaricata, Acila (Acila) shimoyamai, Acila (Acila) submirabilis, Acila (Acila) vigilia
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Point Ano Nuevo (Waddell Creek - Santa Cruz Mudstone) (Miocene of California)
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