Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1864. Description of the Cretaceous fossils. Geological Survey of California Palaeontology 1:57-217

Belongs to Tapes according to W. M. Gabb 1864

Sister taxa: Tapes (Myrsopsis), Tapes (Ruditapes), Tapes (Siratoria), Tapes (Tapes), Tapes (Taurotapes), Tapes (Textrix), Tapes aurea, Tapes corrugatus, Tapes dorsatus, Tapes hilgardi, Tapes lineatum, Tapes literatus, Tapes perovalis, Tapes subundata, Tapes texturata, Tapes truncata, Tapes virginea

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP 785 (Eocene of California)

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