Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative combination: Trigonocallista taffi
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Calva (Egelicalva) according to J. W. Haggart and R. Graham 2018
See also Anderson 1958 and Saul and Popenoe 1992
Sister taxa: Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana, Calva (Egelicalva) buttensis, Calva (Egelicalva) byblidis, Calva (Egelicalva) crassa, Calva (Egelicalva) nitida, Calva (Egelicalva) spissa
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS loc27835, Chico Creek, which is in a Santonian marine sandstone/shale in the Chico Formation of California.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), United States (16: California)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence
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