Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299

Belongs to Mactra according to T. A. Conrad 1848

Sister taxa: Mactra (Barymactra), Mactra (Cyclomactra), Mactra (Electomactra), Mactra (Electromactra), Mactra (Heteromactra), Mactra (Mactra), Mactra (Mactrella), Mactra (Mactrona), Mactra (Maorimactra), Mactra (Nannomactra), Mactra (Sarmatimactra), Mactra (Stiphromactra), Mactra achatina, Mactra artopta, Mactra auca, Mactra austeniana, Mactra australis, Mactra axiniformis, Mactra clathrodon, Mactra cleryana, Mactra constricta, Mactra darwinii, Mactra diegoana, Mactra dissimilis, Mactra emmonsi, Mactra gibbsana, Mactra hamiltonensis, Mactra incomatensis, Mactra irizari, Mactra isabelleana, Mactra lilacea, Mactra maculata, Mactra marplatensis, Mactra mekranensis, Mactra mera, Mactra mississippiensis, Mactra oblonga, Mactra ovalis, Mactra patagonica, Mactra pellucida, Mactra procrassa, Mactra pusilla, Mactra queenslandica, Mactra sericea, Mactra solida, Mactra stultorum, Mactra tripartita, Mactra truncata, Mactra tumbezia, Mactra tumida, Mactra turgida, Mactra utahensis, Mactra (Trigonella) arenaria, Trigonella plana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Vicksburg

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