Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Full reference: B. L. Clark. 1932. Fauna of the Poul and Yakataga Formations (Upper Oligocene) of Southern Alaska. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 43:797-846
Belongs to Nucula (Acila) according to B. L. Clark 1932
Sister taxa: Acila (Acila), Acila (Truncacila), Acila paita, Acila plura, Nucula (Acila) ermanni, Nucula (Acila) mirabilis, Nucula (Acila) nelsoni, Nucula (Acila) packardi, Nucula (Acila) pugetensis
Type specimen: UCMP 30393, a shell. Its type locality is UCMP 3871, Johnson Creek, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine sandstone in the Poul Creek Formation of Alaska.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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