Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae

Synonym: Venericardia (Pacificor) transversaria Verástegui 1953

Full reference: P. Verástegui. 1953. The pelecypod genus Venericardia in the Paleocene and Eocene of western North America. Palaeontographica Americana 3(2535):399-462

Belongs to Venericardia (Pacificor) according to E. J. Moore 1992

See also Verástegui 1953

Sister taxa: Venericardia (Pacificor) aragonia, Venericardia (Pacificor) calafia, Venericardia (Pacificor) clarki, Venericardia (Pacificor) hornii, Venericardia (Pacificor) lisa, Venericardia (Pacificor) merriami, Venericardia (Pacificor) mulleri, Venericardia (Pacificor) taliaferroi, Venericardia (Pacificor) venturensis

Type specimens:

• Venericardia (Pacificor) nelsoni: UCMP 32804, a valve. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon, which is in a Selandian/Thanetian marine horizon in the Santa Susana Formation of California.
• Venericardia (Pacificor) transversaria: UCMP 32804a. Its type locality is UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon, which is in a Selandian/Thanetian marine horizon in the Santa Susana Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at UCMP Loc. 3765, Runkle Canyon

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