Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Alternative combination: Mulinia newcombei
Full reference: B. L. Clark and R. Arnold. 1923. Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14(5):123-234
Belongs to Pseudocardium according to A. J. W. Hendy 2020
See also Clark and Arnold 1923
Sister taxa: Pseudocardium densatum, Pseudocardium landesi, Pseudocardium meganosensis, Pseudocardium orthomorpha, Pseudocardium pabloensis, Pseudocardium packardi, Pseudocardium panzanum, Pseudocardium yaquinense, Spisula (Pseudocardium) haboroensis
Type specimen: UCMP IP 30219. Its type locality is Kirby Creek, east, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Sooke Formation of Canada.
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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