Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae

Alternative combination: Arca cardiformis

Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48

Belongs to Trigonarca according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also von Koenen 1897

Sister taxa: Trigonarca (Costelliarca), Trigonarca acclivis, Trigonarca angolensis, Trigonarca californica, Trigonarca camerunensis, Trigonarca curvatodonta, Trigonarca excavata, Trigonarca furoni, Trigonarca jacksonensis, Trigonarca jessupae, Trigonarca ligeriensis, Trigonarca manzadinensis, Trigonarca schweinfurthi, Trigonarca sectilis, Trigonarca semiglabra, Trigonarca tumida

Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki (Cretaceous of Cameroon)

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