Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: A. Stoppani. 1865. Géologie et paléontologie des couches à Avicula contorta en Lombardie. Paleontologie Lombarde 3:1-267
Belongs to Cyprina according to A. Stoppani 1865
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina iddingsi, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina lens, Cyprina ivensi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Val Taleggio, Lombardy, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in Italy
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Val Taleggio, Lombardy
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