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) alamoensis, 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 alabamensis, Idonearca capax, Idonearca carolinensis, Idonearca deserti, Idonearca littlei, Idonearca orientalis, Idonearca stephensoni
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCLA loc3648, Fossil Bluff, West side of Chico Creek, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone in the Chico Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at UCLA loc. 3648, Fossil Bluff, West side of Chico Creek
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