Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Meretrix according to F. M. Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Meretrix bosworthi, Meretrix cornelli, Meretrix dalli, Meretrix decisa, Meretrix desvauxi, Meretrix gabbi, Meretrix hikoshimensis, Meretrix indica, Meretrix landesi, Meretrix longa, Meretrix macbeani, Meretrix mortoni, Meretrix negritosensis, Meretrix neusensis, Meretrix nuttalliopsis, Meretrix persica, Meretrix pittsburgensis, Meretrix profunda, Meretrix pseudomeretrix, Meretrix shantii, Meretrix stantoni, Meretrix subimpressa, Meretrix sylvaerupis, Meretrix tularana, Meretrix uniomeris, Meretrix yoakumi
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS loc2356, ridge between Marsh Creek and Briones Valley, which is in a Maastrichtian marine horizon in the Moreno Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 2356, ridge between Marsh Creek and Briones Valley
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