Bivalvia - Venerida - 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 nitidula, Cymbophora ochilleana, Cymbophora okadakensis, Cymbophora popenoei, Cymbophora stantoni, Cymbophora suciensis, Cymbophora triangulata, Cymbophora warrenana, 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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