Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Cymbophora according to L. R. Saul 1974
See also Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Cymbophora ashburnerii, Cymbophora bella, Cymbophora gabbiana, Cymbophora moevusi, Cymbophora okadakensis, Cymbophora popenoei, Cymbophora stantoni, Cymbophora suciensis, Cymbophora triangulata, Spisula (Cymbophora) berryi, Spisula (Cymbophora) wordeni
Type specimen: CAS 10643. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 1125, mile west of Pentz, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in the Chico Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (3: California collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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