Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Full reference: P. Choffat. 1888. Description des fossiles crétaciques, mollusques, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):61-95
Belongs to Cyprina according to P. Choffat 1888
Sister taxa: Arctica africana, Arctica calabra, Arctica globosa, Arctica islandica, Arctica limpidiana, Arctica mediale, Arctica murrayensis, Arctica picteti, Arctica planata, Arctica provencialis, Arctica subanthooensis, Cyprina escheri, Cyprina cuneata, Cyprina praerustica, Cyprina denmanensis, Cyprina purae, Cyprina cancriniana, Cyprina occidentalis, Cyprina scutellaria, Cyprina cordiformis, Cyprina lens, Cyprina iddingsi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Dombe-Grande (grès à Cyprina ivensi), which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in Angola
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (grès à Cyprina ivensi)
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