Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: C. G. Giebel. 1856. Die Versteinerungen in Muschelkalk von Lieskau bei Halle. Abhandlungen Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines 1:53-126
Belongs to Cyprina according to C. G. Giebel 1856
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica mediale, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina ivensi, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina lens, Cyprina occidentalis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lieskau Quarry, Halle, which is in a Triassic shallow subtidal limestone in Germany
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Lieskau Quarry, Halle
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