Bivalvia - Cardiida - Montacutidae
Full reference: G. Willett. 1937. An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 8(30):379-406
Belongs to Rochefortia according to G. Willett 1937
Sister taxa: Rochefortia aleutica, Rochefortia dawsoni
Type specimen: LACMIP 1046, a shell (right and left valves). Its type locality is LACMIP loc. 59, Lincoln Avenue deposit, Playa del Rey, which is in a Pleistocene marginal marine sandstone in the Palos Verdes Sand Formation of California.
Ecology: stationary infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: California collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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