Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
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 Loripes according to T. A. Conrad 1848
Sister taxa: Loripes (Loripes), Loripes aberrans, Loripes atavus, Loripes proavius, Loripes simulans, Loripes subvexa
Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution: found only at Vicksburg
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