Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
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 Cytherea according to T. A. Conrad 1848
Sister taxa: Cytherea adabionensis, Cytherea aequorea, Cytherea ambigua, Cytherea astartiformis, Cytherea avia, Cytherea capillacea, Cytherea corbuloides, Cytherea curionii, Cytherea elegantula, Cytherea elliptica, Cytherea erycinoides, Cytherea eversa, Cytherea gruneri, Cytherea humerosa, Cytherea hunteri, Cytherea jerdoni, Cytherea lamberti, Cytherea mississippiensis, Cytherea mortoni, Cytherea murrayana, Cytherea nuttali, Cytherea obsoleta, Cytherea orbicularis, Cytherea oregonensis, Cytherea paucirugata, Cytherea pectinata, Cytherea perbrevis, Cytherea poulsoni, Cytherea rawesi, Cytherea rhaetica, Cytherea scinctilla, Cytherea sobrina, Cytherea soror, Cytherea subcrassa, Cytherea submultistriata, Cytherea tenuidentata, Cytherea trigoniata, Cytherea wapsharei, Cytherea wilsoni, Cytherea wohltmanni
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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