Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae

Full reference: L. W. Wiedey. 1928. Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(10):95-182

Belongs to Pteria according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020

See also Moore 1983 and Wiedey 1928

Sister taxa: Pteria (Margaritifera), Pteria argentea, Pteria berryi, Pteria bisincilis, Pteria cabrai, Pteria carixensis, Pteria cassiana, Pteria clarki, Pteria colymbus, Pteria datongensis, Pteria dianensis, Pteria elegans, Pteria fragilis, Pteria guizhouensis, Pteria hechuanensis, Pteria hertleini, Pteria hirundo, Pteria howei, Pteria infelix, Pteria inornata, Pteria interrupta, Pteria kitakamiensis, Pteria kitsoni, Pteria laksel, Pteria lata, Pteria limula, Pteria mazatlanica, Pteria murchisoni, Pteria nasuta, Pteria notukeuensis, Pteria papyracea, Pteria pellucida, Pteria penguin, Pteria peregrina, Pteria plana, Pteria raricosta, Pteria rugosa, Pteria sanqiaoensis, Pteria spedeni, Pteria sterna, Pteria sturi, Pteria ussurica, Pteria yonganensis

Type specimen: SDSNH 25, a valve. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 425, Dry Canyon, which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in California.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 425, Dry Canyon

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