Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Full reference: E. L. Packard. 1922. New species from the Cretaceous of the Santa Ana Mountains, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 13(10):413-462
Belongs to Trigonarca according to P. W. Reinhart 1943
See also Anderson 1958 and Packard 1922
Sister taxa: Trigonarca (Costelliarca), Trigonarca acclivis, Trigonarca angolensis, Trigonarca californica, Trigonarca camerunensis, Trigonarca cardiformis, Trigonarca curvatodonta, Trigonarca furoni, Trigonarca jacksonensis, Trigonarca jessupae, Trigonarca ligeriensis, Trigonarca manzadinensis, Trigonarca schweinfurthi, Trigonarca sectilis, Trigonarca semiglabra, Trigonarca tumida
Type specimen: UCMP 12315. Its type locality is UCMP loc. 2141, Santa Ana Mountains, which is in a Turonian/Coniacian marine horizon in the Ladd Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (3: California collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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