Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Cucullaea (Idonearca) according to F. M. Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Cucullaea (Idonearca) buttensis, Cucullaea (Idonearca) calabaza, Cucullaea (Idonearca) diceras, Cucullaea (Idonearca) ezoensis, Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida, Cucullaea (Idonearca) grossaforma, Cucullaea (Idonearca) maresi, Cucullaea (Idonearca) melhaseana, Cucullaea (Idonearca) muensteri, Cucullaea (Idonearca) thevestensis, Cucullaea (Idonearca) tippana, Cucullaea (Idonearca) trigona, Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi, Idonearca capax, Idonearca carolinensis, Idonearca deserti, Idonearca littlei, Idonearca orientalis, Idonearca stephensoni
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc1346, Ono, which is in an Albian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: California collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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